Marriage Quotes by Charles Dickens

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

— Charles Dickens

“Madame Defarge immediately called to her husband that she would get them, and went, knitting, out of the lamplight, through the courtyard”

— Charles Dickens

You see," said Mr. Toots, "what I wanted in a wife was - in short, was sense. Money, Feeder, I had. Sense…

— Charles Dickens

“Marriage is a civil contract; people marry to better their worldly condition and improve appearances; it is an affair of house and…

— Charles Dickens

“Lost friend, lost child, lost parent, sister, brother, husband, wife, we will not so discard you! You shall hold your cherished places…

— Charles Dickens

“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

“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

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

I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it…

— Charles Dickens

“My poor girl, you have not been very well taught how to make a home for your husband, but unless you mean…

— Charles Dickens

“Drunkenness - that fierce rage for the slow, sure poison, that oversteps every other consideration; that casts aside wife, children, friends, happiness,…

— Charles Dickens

If you will take me for your wife, Walter, I will love you dearly. If you will let me go with you,…

— Charles Dickens

It is a long time,' repeated his wife; 'and when is it not a long time? Vengeance and retribution require a long…

— Charles Dickens

There is not a manufacturer or tradesman in existence, who would not employ a man who takes a reasonable degree of pride…

— Charles Dickens

“Mr Henry Gowan and the dog were established frequenters of the cottage, and the day was fixed for the wedding. There was…

— Charles Dickens

“The following two chapters are taken from Dickens’ first novel The Pickwick Papers, concerning the Pickwickians famous visit to Dingley Dell to…

— Charles Dickens

If an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitious man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, though it originate in…

— Charles Dickens

“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

“They all gave place when the signing was done, and Little Dorrit and her husband walked out of the church alone. They…

— Charles Dickens

“And now, as I close my task, subduing my desire to linger yet, these faces fade away. But one face, shining on…

— Charles Dickens

“It was all Mrs. Bumble. She would do it," urged Mr. Bumble; first looking round, to ascertain that his partner had left…

— Charles Dickens

“For the first time the Doctor felt, now, that his suffering was strength and power. For the first time he felt that…

— Charles Dickens

“Show Pleasant Riderhood a Wedding in the street, and she only saw two people taking out a regular license to quarrel and…

— Charles Dickens

“These are early days, Trot, and Rome was not built in a day, nor in a year. You have chosen freely for…

— Charles Dickens

“My dear Michael, I have given you my heart. I have said that I loved you, and I have pledged myself to…

— Charles Dickens

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

You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer,” said Miss Pross, in her breathing. “Nevertheless, you shall not get the…

— Charles Dickens

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

All the housemaid hopes is, happiness for 'em - but marriage is a lottery, and the more she thinks about it, the…

— Charles Dickens

“There was silence, which was not broken until Arthur had stood for some time at the window with his back towards them,…

— Charles Dickens

“And they were married with the sun shining on them through the painted figure of Our Saviour on the window. And they…

— Charles Dickens

“May I ask you if you have ever had an opportunity of remarking, down in your part of the country, that the…

— Charles Dickens

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

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

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

“how there were echoes all about her, sweet in her ears, of the many times her father had told her that he…

— Charles Dickens

“It was unaccountable not to be obliged to go out to see her, not to have any occasion to be tormenting myself…

— Charles Dickens

“ 'How a mother can look at her baby, and know that she lives beyond her husband's means, I cannot imagine.' "…

— Charles Dickens