It is no small thing, when they, who are so fresh from God, love us. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I thought her looking as she always does: superior in all respects to everyone around her” — 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
Do not repine, my friends," said Mr. Pecksniff, tenderly. "Do not weep for me. It is chronic. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Thus two people who cannot afford to play cards for money, sometimes sit down to a quiet game for love.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Lovers had loved before, and lovers would love again; but no lover had ever loved, might, could, would, or should ever love,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
And yet I love him. I love him so much and so dearly, that when I sometimes think my life may be… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away-the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and… — 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
Opening her eyes again, and seeing her husband's face across the table, she leaned forward to give it a pat on the… — 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
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
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
“They had a lurking suspicion even, that he died of secret love; though I must say there was a picture of him… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“We soon settled it by all hands going, and buckled down to the work of getting ready. Sleds were strengthened, harnesses and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Never, never, before Heaven, have I thought of you but as the single, bright, pure, blessed recollection of my boyhood and my… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“What do I know, father,' said Louisa in her quiet manner, 'of tastes and fancies; of aspirations and affections; of all that… — 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
And when you had made sure of the poor little fool," said my aunt - "God forgive me that I should call… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
But even if he has been wicked," pursued Rose, "think how young he is; think that he may never have known a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“My dear child,' said the old gentleman, moved by the warmth of Oliver's sudden appeal, 'you need not be afraid of my… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I don't remember who was there, except Dora. I have not the least idea what we had for dinner, besides Dora. My… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A man ain't got no right to be a public man, unless he meets the public views. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
And it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There is a man who would give his life to keep a life you love beside you. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“...mysteries arise out of close love, as well as out of wide division...” — 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
