Quotes from Charles Dickens

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.

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

Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.

I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disinterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her.

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.

Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands.

"It was as true " said Mr. Barkis ... "as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them."

The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making.

Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.

True love believes everything, and bears everything, and trusts everything.

Love is in all things a most wonderful teacher.

When the wind is blowing and the sleet or rain is driving against the dark windows, I love to sit by the fire, thinking of what I have read in books of voyage and travel.

Do not close your heart against all my efforts to help you.

Death is a mighty, universal truth.

"It was as true" said Mr. Barkus "as taxes is. And nothing is truer than them."

She better liked to see him free and happy, even than to have him near her, because she loved him better than herself.

Your voice and music are the same to me.

Love is not a feeling to pass away Like the balmy breath of a Summer's day....... Love is not a passion of earthly mould As a thirst for honour, or fame, or gold

And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. And O what a bright old song it is, that O 'tis love, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round!

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