Charles Dickens Quotes, Love Quotes, Giving Up Quotes

I'll tell you," said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, "what real love it. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter - as I did!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Love Quotes , Giving Up Quotes

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , People Quotes , Coats Quotes

I don't feel any vulgar gratitude to you[for helping me]. I almost feel as if You ought to be grateful to ME, for giving you the opportunity of enjoying the luxury of generosity. . . I may have come into the world expressly for the purpose of increasing your stock of happiness. I may have been born to be a benefactor to you, by giving you an opportunity of assisting me.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Gratitude Quotes , Grateful Quotes

It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Couple Quotes , Hands Quotes

Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Law Quotes , Knowing Quotes

A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Love Quotes , Heart Quotes

An evening wind uprose too, and the slighter branches cracked and rattled as they moved, in skeleton dances, to its moaning music.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Skeletons Quotes , Wind Quotes

Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Men Quotes , Judging Quotes

There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories - Ghost Stories, or more shame for us - round the Christmas fire; and we have never stirred, except to draw a little nearer to it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Winter Quotes , Smell Quotes

Heaven suits the back to the burden.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Heaven Quotes , Suits Quotes

But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Heart Quotes , Soul Quotes

Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Death Quotes , Fire Quotes

"Drink with me, my dear," said Mr. Weller. "Put your lips to this here tumbler, and then I can kiss you by deputy."

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Love Quotes , Kissing Quotes

She had gained a reputation for beauty, and (which is often another thing) was beautiful.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Character Quotes

Mr. Bazzard's father, being a Norfolk farmer, would have furiously laid about him with a flail, a pitch-fork, and every agricultural implement available for assaulting purposes, on the slightest hint of his son's having written a play.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Funny Quotes , Father Quotes

All partings foreshadow the great final one.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Finals Quotes

The leprosy of unreality disfigured every human creature in attendance.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Attendance Quotes , Leprosy Quotes

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Children Quotes , Parenting Quotes

They don't mind it: its a reg'lar holiday to them - all porter and skittles.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Life Quotes , Holiday Quotes

Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Real Quotes , Heart Quotes