Charles Dickens Quotes About Sailing

• He was sailing over a boundless expanse of sea, with a blood-red sky above, and the angry waters, lashed into fury beneath, boiling and eddying up, on every side. There was another vessel before them, toiling and labouring in the howling storm: her canvas fluttering in ribbons from the mast.

  Charles Dickens

  Blood, Sea, Sky

  Charles Dickens (1838). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.148

• I'd lay down my life for her - Mas'r Davy - Oh! most content and cheerful! She's more to me - gent'lmen - than - she's all to me that ever I can want, and more than ever I - than ever I could say. I - I love her true. There ain't a gent'lman in all the land - nor yet sailing upon all the sea - that can love his lady more than I love her.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Sea, Land

  Charles Dickens (2009). “David Copperfield: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.50, ReadHowYouWant.com

• Home is like the ship at sea, Sailing on eternally; Oft the anchor forth we cast, But can never make it fast.

  Charles Dickens

  Home, Anchors, Sea

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