--- title: "9 Casts Quotes By Charles Dickens" description: "9 Casts quotes by Charles Dickens. Plus more from Charles Dickens and more Casts sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d4/charles-dickens-34_anchors_home-is-like-the-ship-at-sea-sailing-on_1509581.jpg" --- > [Home is like the ship at sea, Sailing on eternally; Oft the anchor forth we cast, But can never make it fast.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/home-is-like-the-ship-at-sea-sailing-on-eternally-oft-the-anchor/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d4/charles-dickens-34_anchors_home-is-like-the-ship-at-sea-sailing-on_1509581.jpg) > [My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/my-heart-is-set-as-firmly-as-ever-heart-of-man-was-set-on-woman-i/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b89/charles-dickens-34_casts_my-heart-is-set-as-firmly-as-ever-heart_1994933.jpg) > [They enter, locking themselves in, descend the rugged steps, and are down in the Crypt. The lantern is not wanted, for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/they-enter-locking-themselves-in-descend-the-rugged-steps-and-are/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/faf/charles-dickens-34_black_they-enter-locking-themselves-in-descend_724366.jpg) > [Newman cast a despairing glance at his small store of fuel, but, not having the courage to say no-a word which in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/newman-cast-a-despairing-glance-at-his-small-store-of-fuel-but-not/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/17f/charles-dickens-34_arrangements_newman-cast-a-despairing-glance-at-his-s_466396.jpg) > [The bright, frosty day declined as they walked and spoke together. The sun dipped in the river far behind them, and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/the-bright-frosty-day-declined-as-they-walked-and-spoke-together-the/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c5/charles-dickens-34_air_the-bright-frosty-day-declined-as-they-w_2903560.jpg) > [In this way they went on, and on, and on-in the language of the story-books-until at last the village lights appeared before…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/in-this-way-they-went-on-and-on-and-on-in-the-language-of-the-story/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4eb/charles-dickens-34_book_in-this-way-they-went-on-and-on-and-on-i_2999646.jpg) > [Surely there had been no figure leaning on the back of his chair; no face looking over it. It is certain that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/surely-there-had-been-no-figure-leaning-on-the-back-of-his-chair-no/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e14/charles-dickens-34_casts_surely-there-had-been-no-figure-leaning_647621.jpg) > [Her heart-is given him, with all its love and truth. She would joyfully die with him, or, better than that, die for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/her-heart-is-given-him-with-all-its-love-and-truth-she-would-joyfully/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f0a/charles-dickens-34_care_her-heart-is-given-him-with-all-its-love_2181186.jpg) > [If an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitious man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, though it originate in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/if-an-enthusiastic-ardent-and-ambitious-man-marry-a-wife-on-whose/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8a/charles-dickens-34_ambitious-man_if-an-enthusiastic-ardent-and-ambitious_485025.jpg) ## Other authors on Casts ## More by Charles Dickens > [“All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/all-other-swindlers-upon-earth-are-nothing-to-the-self-swindlers-and/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/arthur-gride-whose-bleared-eyes-gloated-only-over-the-outward/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/there-can-be-no-disparity-in-marriage-like-unsuitability-of-mind-and/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/i-have-tried-to-resign-myself-and-to-console-myself-and-that-i-hope-i/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [A new heart for a New Year, always!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/a-new-heart-for-a-new-year-always/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [“The suspense: the fearful, acute suspense: of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance; the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/the-suspense-the-fearful-acute-suspense-of-standing-idly-by-while-the/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [“Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/mrs-joe-was-a-very-clean-housekeeper-but-had-an-exquisite-art-of/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [There seems a magic in the very name of Christmas.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/there-seems-a-magic-in-the-very-name-of-christmas/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [“evening, they began to think that although he could never hope to be an Englishman, still it would be hard to visit that affliction…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/evening-they-began-to-think-that-although-he-could-never-hope-to-be/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [“Besides which, all that I could have said of the Story to any purpose, I had endeavoured to say in it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/besides-which-all-that-i-could-have-said-of-the-story-to-any-purpose/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [“The wheels rolled on, and rolled down by the Monument, and by the Tower; and by the Docks; down by Ratcliffe, and by Rotherhithe;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/the-wheels-rolled-on-and-rolled-down-by-the-monument-and-by-the-tower/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [“The three customers pulled off their hats to Madame Defarge, with three flourishes. She acknowledged their homage by bending her head, and giving them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/the-three-customers-pulled-off-their-hats-to-madame-defarge-with/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [“What a situation!' cried Miss Squeers; '...What is the reason that men fall in love with me, whether I like it or not, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/what-a-situation-cried-miss-squeers-what-is-the-reason-that-men-fall/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [I admire machinery as much is any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/i-admire-machinery-as-much-is-any-man-and-am-as-thankful-to-it-as-any/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [“Mr. Pickwick was a philosopher, but philosophers are only men in armour, after all.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/mr-pickwick-was-a-philosopher-but-philosophers-are-only-men-in-armour/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/casts/charles-dickens/#itemlist", "name": "9 Casts Quotes By Charles Dickens", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Home is like the ship at sea, Sailing on eternally; Oft the anchor forth we cast, But can never make it fast.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Charles Dickens" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/home-is-like-the-ship-at-sea-sailing-on-eternally-oft-the-anchor/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d4/charles-dickens-34_anchors_home-is-like-the-ship-at-sea-sailing-on_1509581.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d4/charles-dickens-34_anchors_home-is-like-the-ship-at-sea-sailing-on_1509581.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d4/charles-dickens-34_anchors_home-is-like-the-ship-at-sea-sailing-on_1509581.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Home is like the ship at sea, Sailing on eternally; Oft the anchor forth we cast, But can never make it fast.” — Charles Dickens", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. 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