True love believes everything, and bears everything, and trusts everything. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Ah, if only I had brought a cigar with me! This would have established my identity. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her.” — 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
Drink with me, my dear, said Mr. Weller. Put your lips to this here tumbler, and then I can kiss you by… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“You do not know what all around you see in Esther Summerson, how many hearts she touches and awakens, what sacred admiration… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us. — 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
Love is not a feeling to pass away Like the balmy breath of a Summer's day… Love is not a passion of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There lives at least one being who can never change-one being who would be content to devote his whole existence to your… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Without strong affection, and humanity of heart, and gratitude to that Being whose code is mercy, and whose great attribute is benevolence… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
You have no idea what it is to have anybody wonderful fond of you, unless you have been got down and rolled… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I cannot help it; reason has nothing to do with it; I love her against reason-but who would as soon love me… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Caleb was no sorcerer, but in the only magic art that still remains to us, the magic of devoted, deathless love, Nature… — 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
“As she stooped over him, her tears fell upon his forehead. The boy stirred, and smiled in his sleep, as though these… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Well, it was really very pleasant to see how things lazily adapted themselves to purposes. Here was this Mr Gridley, a man… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed 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
“...if they would but think how hard it is for the very poor to have engendered in their hearts, that love of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“And now, as I close my task, subduing my desire to linger yet, these faces fade away. But one face, shining on… — 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
“For certain, neither of them sees a happy Present, as the gate opens and closes, and one goes in, and 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
The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“why should I seek to change, what has been so precious to me for so long! you can never show better than… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Many merry Christmases, many happy New Years. Unbroken friendships, great accumulations of cheerful recollections and affections on earth, and heaven for us… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“And O what a bright old song it is, that O 'tis love, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go… — 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
“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