The beating of my heart was so violent and wild that I felt as if my life were breaking from me. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
[She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
'I believe, Mr. Snitchey,' said Alfred, 'there are quiet victories and struggles, great sacrifices of self, and noble acts of heroism, in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. I see her,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Upon the purple tree-tops far away, and on the green height near at hand up which the shades were slowly creeping, there… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Out upon merry Christmas! What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
it is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There are chords in the human heart- strange, varying strings- which are only struck by accident; which will remain mute and senseless… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
You anticipate what I would say, though you cannot know how earnestly I say it, how earnestly I feel it, without knowing… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Break their hearts my pride and hope, break their hearts and have no mercy. -Miss Havisham — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Mrs. Lammle's manner changed under the poor silly girl's embraces, and she turned extremely pale: directing one appealing look, first to Mrs.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“If you could say, with truth, to your own solitary heart, to-night, 'I have secured to myself the love and attachment, the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
He was touched in the cavity where his heart should have been, in that nest of addled eggs, where the birds of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
"Ghost of the Future," he exclaimed, "I fear you more than any spectre I have seen. But as I know your purpose… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
"Some persons hold," he pursued, still hesitating, "that there is a wisdom of the Head, and that there is a wisdom of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“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… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The suspense: the fearful, acute suspense: of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance; the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“evening, they began to think that although he could never hope to be an Englishman, still it would be hard to visit that affliction… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Besides which, all that I could have said of the Story to any purpose, I had endeavoured to say in it.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The wheels rolled on, and rolled down by the Monument, and by the Tower; and by the Docks; down by Ratcliffe, and by Rotherhithe;… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The three customers pulled off their hats to Madame Defarge, with three flourishes. She acknowledged their homage by bending her head, and giving them… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image