There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose. — 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
“Madame Defarge immediately called to her husband that she would get them, and went, knitting, out of the lamplight, through the courtyard” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Come, let's be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer,” said Miss Pross, in her breathing. “Nevertheless, you shall not get the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
All the housemaid hopes is, happiness for 'em - but marriage is a lottery, and the more she thinks about it, the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I only hope, for the sake of the rising male sex generally, that you may be found in as vulnerable and soft-hearted… — 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
“Marriage is a civil contract; people marry to better their worldly condition and improve appearances; it is an affair of house and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“There was silence, which was not broken until Arthur had stood for some time at the window with his back towards them,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If Husain (as) had fought to quench his worldly desires…then I do not understand why his sister, wife, and children accompanied him.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is a long time,' repeated his wife; 'and when is it not a long time? Vengeance and retribution require a long… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Mr Henry Gowan and the dog were established frequenters of the cottage, and the day was fixed for the wedding. There was… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There is not a manufacturer or tradesman in existence, who would not employ a man who takes a reasonable degree of pride… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If you will take me for your wife, Walter, I will love you dearly. If you will let me go with you,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“They all gave place when the signing was done, and Little Dorrit and her husband walked out of the church alone. They… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The following two chapters are taken from Dickens’ first novel The Pickwick Papers, concerning the Pickwickians famous visit to Dingley Dell to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“how there were echoes all about her, sweet in her ears, of the many times her father had told her that he… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitious man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, though it originate in… — 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
“It was all Mrs. Bumble. She would do it," urged Mr. Bumble; first looking round, to ascertain that his partner had left… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“These are early days, Trot, and Rome was not built in a day, nor in a year. You have chosen freely for… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“For the first time the Doctor felt, now, that his suffering was strength and power. For the first time he felt that… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Show Pleasant Riderhood a Wedding in the street, and she only saw two people taking out a regular license to quarrel and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“My dear Michael, I have given you my heart. I have said that I loved you, and I have pledged myself to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“My poor girl, you have not been very well taught how to make a home for your husband, but unless you mean… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“And they were married with the sun shining on them through the painted figure of Our Saviour on the window. And they… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Drunkenness - that fierce rage for the slow, sure poison, that oversteps every other consideration; that casts aside wife, children, friends, happiness,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I am in the theatrical profession myself, my wife is in the theatrical profession, my children are in the theatrical profession.I had… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Wen you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but vether it's worth while… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Lost friend, lost child, lost parent, sister, brother, husband, wife, we will not so discard you! You shall hold your cherished places… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I and my husband have enough to do to keep this wine-shop open, without thinking. All we think, here, is how to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Where is your false, your treacherous, and cursed wife?" "She's gone forrard to the Police Office," returns Mr Bucket. "You'll see her… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“ 'How a mother can look at her baby, and know that she lives beyond her husband's means, I cannot imagine.' "… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“It was unaccountable not to be obliged to go out to see her, not to have any occasion to be tormenting myself… — 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
