“...but everything in our intercourse did give me pain. Whatever her tone with me happened to be, I could put no trust… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I'll tell you," said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, "what real love it. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Her reverting to this tone, as if our association were forced upon us and we were mere puppets, gave me pain; but… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Trust in nothing but in Providence and your own efforts. Never separate the two, like the heathen waggoner. Constancy in love is… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“CHAPTER XV. IN WHICH IS GIVEN A FAITHFUL PORTRAITURE OF TWO DISTINGUISHED PERSONS; AND AN ACCURATE DESCRIPTION OF A PUBLIC BREAKFAST IN… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Whatever her tone with me happened to be, I could put no trust in it, and build no hope on it; and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I resolved to tell my guardian that I doubted Orlick being the right sort of man to fill a post of trust… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God! — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
True love believes everything, and bears everything, and trusts everything. — 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