Charles Dickens Quotes About Heart

• Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Tears, Stronger

  Charles Dickens (2014). “Great Expectations”, p.310, Jazzybee Verlag
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  But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.

  Charles Dickens

  Christmas, Forgiveness, Heart

  Charles Dickens (1983). “A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas”, p.281, Library of Alexandria

• Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Men, Compassion

  'Bleak House' (1853) ch. 47 (on the death of Jo)

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

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Charles Dickens (2009). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.455, Cosimo, Inc.

• Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

  Charles Dickens

  Pain, Teaching, Heart

  Charles Dickens (1881). “Great Expectations”, p.525

• Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.

  Charles Dickens

  Sorry, Rain, Heart

  Charles Dickens (2016). “British Classics: Great Expectations”, p.132, The Planet

• I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Christmas, Education

  A Christmas Carol stave 4 (1843)

• Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

• A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Charles Dickens (2007). “David Copperfield”, Bloomsbury Pub Limited

• To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Honesty, Heart

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.10568, Delphi Classics

• 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!

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Giving Up, Real

  Charles Dickens (2016). “British Classics: Great Expectations”, p.198, The Planet

• There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

  Charles Dickens

  Wisdom, Heart, Awareness

  Hard Times bk. 3, ch. 1 (1854)

• 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!

  Charles Dickens

  Philosophical, Heart, Past

  Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.91

• The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Thinking, Broken

  "Fictional character: Miss Havisham". "Great Expectations" Episode #1.3, www.imdb.com. 2011.

• A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Night, Cities

  A Tale of Two Cities bk. 1, ch. 3 (1859)

• Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Father, Heart

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty'”, p.25, Sai ePublications via PublishDrive

• A new heart for a New Year, always!

  Charles Dickens

  Inspiring, New Year, Heart

  Charles Dickens (2004). “The Chimes (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.31, Sparklesoup LLC

• He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart.

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Faithful, World

  Charles Dickens (2015). “A Tale of Two Cities: World Classics”, p.99, World Classic

• I know that she deserves the best and purest love the heart of man can offer," said Mrs. Maylie; "I know that the devotion and affection of her nature require no ordinary return, but one that shall be deep and lasting.

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Men, Return

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.1035, Delphi Classics

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

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Thinking, Sensitive

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.32

• Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Heart, Literature

  "David Copperfield". Book by Charles Dickens, 1850.

• To a young heart everything is fun.

  Charles Dickens

  Fun, Heart, Enjoy Life

• I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy. I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, Heart, Cities

  'A Tale of Two Cities' (1859) bk. 3, ch. 15 (Sydney Carton's thoughts on the scaffold)

• There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Literature, Emotion

  'Barnaby Rudge' (1841) ch. 22 (Mr Tappertit)

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

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Soul, Tears

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.142

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