I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“What a situation!' cried Miss Squeers; '...What is the reason that men fall in love with me, whether I like it or… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
And the voices in the waves are always whispering to Florence, in their ceaseless murmuring, of love - of love, eternal and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
"Do not repine, my friends," said Mr. Pecksniff, tenderly. "Do not weep for me. It is chronic." — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces-- love her, love her, love her!” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Equity sends questions to Law. Law sends questions back to equity; Law finds it can't do this, equity finds it can't do… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Love, however, is very materially assisted by a warm and active imagination: which has a long memory, and will thrive, for a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I have been deceived, before, in the objects whom I have endeavoured to benefit; but I feel strongly disposed to trust you,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The same mistake presents itself to me, in one shape or other, at every turn,' said brother Charles. 'Parents who never showed… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“All through dinner, Flora combined her present appetite for eating and drinking with her past appetite for romantic love, in a way… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“When ladies as young, and good, and beautiful as you are," replied the girl steadily, "give away your hearts, love will carry… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Estella was the inspiration of it, and the heart of it, of course. But, though she had taken such strong possession of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Indeed, he married her for love. A whisper still goes about that she had not even family; howbeit, Sir Leicester had so… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
To be allowed to call her "Dora", to write to her, to dote upon and worship her, to have reason to think… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Indeed, he married her for love. A whisper still goes about, that she had not even family; howbeit, Sir Leicester had so… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
"You see," said Mr. Toots, "what I wanted in a wife was - in short, was sense. Money, Feeder, I had. Sense… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
O, if the deeds of human creatures could be traced to their source, how beautiful would even death appear; for how much… — 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