“I do not know the American gentleman—God forgive me for putting two such words together.”Charles Dickens
“For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this word stood out so strikingly from the consistent discouragement around him.”Charles Dickens
“My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.”Charles Dickens
“I only know that it was, and ceased to be; and that I have written, and there I leave it.”Charles Dickens
“There are hopes, the bloom of whose beauty would be spoiled by the trammels of description; too lovely, too delicate, too sacred for words, they should only be known through the sympathy of hearts.”Charles Dickens
“The beach was a desert of heaps of sea and stones tumbling wildly about, and the sea did what it liked, and what it liked was destruction.”Charles Dickens
“You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell; what I mean is, that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me.”Charles Dickens
“Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.”Charles Dickens
“When we came within sight of the sea, the waves on the horizon, caught at intervals above the rolling abyss, were like glimpses of another shore with towers and buildings.”Charles Dickens
“There lives at least one being who can never change — one being who would be content to devote his whole existence to your happiness, who lives but in your eyes, who breathes but in your smiles, who bears the heavy burden of life itself only for you.”Charles Dickens
“Think, now and then, that there is a man who would give his life to keep a life you love beside you.”Charles Dickens
