Charles Dickens Quotes

It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

For you, and for any dear to you, I would do anything. If my career were of that better kind that there was any opportunity or capacity of sacrifice in it, I would embrace any sacrifice for you and for those dear to you. Try to hold me in your mind, at some quiet times, as ardent and sincere in this one thing. The time will come, the time will not be long in coming, when new ties will be formed about you — ties that will bind you yet more tenderly and strongly to the home you so adorn — the dearest ties that will ever grace and gladden you. O Miss Manette, when the little picture of a happy father's face looks up in yours, when you see your own bright beauty springing up anew at your feet, think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you!

Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

I am what you designed me to be.I am your blade. You cannot now complain if you also feel the hurt

"Before I go," he said, and paused — "I may kiss her?"

It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words. The child, who was nearest to him, told them afterwards, and told her grandchildren when she was a handsome old lady, that she heard him say, "A life you love."