There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“May you have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
And numerous indeed are the hearts to which Christmas brings a brief season of happiness and enjoyment. — 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
Break their hearts my pride and hope, break their hearts and have no mercy. -Miss Havisham — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
She better liked to see him free and happy, even than to have him near her, because she loved him better than… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
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
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
Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We were equals afterwards, as we had been before; but, afterwards at quiet times when I sat looking at Joe and thinking… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
every idiot who goes about with a 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with… — 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
There are hopes, the bloom of whose beauty would be spoiled by the trammels of description; too lovely, too delicate, too sacred… — 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
My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
She forgot to be shy at the moment, in honestly warning him away from the sunken wreck he had a dream of… — 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
... when he saw her sitting there all alone, so young, and good, and beautiful, and kind to him; and heard her… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
But tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble’s soul; his heart was waterproof. Like washable beaver hats… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I lay down… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Long may it remain in this mixed world a question not easy of decision, which is the more beautiful evidence of the… — 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
I'll tell you," said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, "what real love it. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is an exquisite and beautiful thing in our nature, that, when the heart is touched and softened by some tranquil happiness… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
But the moon came slowly up in all her gentle glory, and the stars looked out, and through the small compass of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, flourishing his bread-and-cheese knife in the air, "in the human heart that had better not be… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
. . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had… — 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
“It was in vain for Madame Defarge to struggle and to strike; Miss Pross, with the vigorous tenacity of love, always so… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Little Dorrit that she had not seen Mr F.'s Aunt so full of life and character for weeks; that she would find… — 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
I have a heart to be stabbed in or shot in, I have no doubt, and, of course, if it ceased to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Listlessness to everything, but brooding sorrow, was the night that fell on my undisciplined heart. Let me look up from it -… — 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
... 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
There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose. — Charles Dickens Copy Share
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“What a situation!' cried Miss Squeers; '...What is the reason that men fall in love with me, whether I like it or not, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
I admire machinery as much is any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
“Mr. Pickwick was a philosopher, but philosophers are only men in armour, after all.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share