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I don't remember who was there, except Dora. I have not the least idea what we had for dinner, besides Dora. My impression is, that I dined off Dora, entirely, and sent away half-a-dozen plates untouched. I sat next to

I don't remember who was there, except Dora. I have not the least idea what we had for dinner, besides Dora. My impression is, that I dined off Dora, entirely, and sent away half-a-dozen plates untouched. I sat next to her. I talked to her. She had the most delightful little voice, the gayest little laugh, the pleasantest and most fascinating little ways, that ever led a lost youth into hopeless slavery. She was rather diminutive altogether. So much the more precious, I thought.

Charles Dickens
Love, Lost Youth, Ideas
Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.237

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

Charles Dickens
Love, Heart, Effort
Charles Dickens (2015). “Oliver Twist, Volume 3 (of 3) (Illustrations)”, p.21, RICHARD BENTLEY

When she took her opposite place in the carriage corner, the brightness in her face was so charming to behold, that on her exclaiming, "What beautiful stars and what a glorious night!" the Secretary said "Yes," but seemed to prefer to see the night and the stars in the light of her lovely little countenance, to looking out of window.

Charles Dickens
Love, Beautiful, Stars
Charles Dickens, George Cruikshank (1868). “The Works of Charles Dickens: Our mutual friend”, p.461

Never, never, before Heaven, have I thought of you but as the single, bright, pure, blessed recollection of my boyhood and my youth. Never have I from the first, and never shall I to the last, regard your part in my life, but as something sacred, never to be lightly thought of, never to be esteemed enough, never, until death, to be forgotten.

Charles Dickens
Love, Blessed, Heaven
Charles Dickens (1872). “The Works of Charles Dickens”, p.289

Never sign a valentine with your own name.

Charles Dickens
Love, Valentine, Heart

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
Love, Eye, Burdens Of Life
Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.61

She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph. I don't know what she was, anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted. I was swallowed up in an abyss of love in an instant. There was no pausing on the brink, no looking down, or looking back. I was gone, headlong, before I had sense to say a word to her.

Charles Dickens
Love, Gone, Saws
Charles Dickens (1872). “A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens”, p.277

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
Love, Mean, Men
Charles Dickens (2016). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.528, Charles Dickens

Love, however, is very materially assisted by a warm and active imagination: which has a long memory, and will thrive, for a considerable time, on very slight and sparing food.

Charles Dickens
Love, Memories, Long
Charles Dickens (2016). “The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.502, Xist Publishing

If I may so express it, I was steeped in Dora. I was not merely over head and ears in love with her, but I was saturated through and through. Enough love might have been wrung out of me, metaphorically speaking, to drown anybody in; and yet there would have remained enough within me, and all over me, to pervade my entire existence.

Charles Dickens
Love, Ears, May
Jan Fields, Charles Dickens (2010). “David Copperfield”, p.953, Calico Chapter Books

To be allowed to call her "Dora", to write to her, to dote upon and worship her, to have reason to think that when she was with other people she was yet mindful of me, seemed to me the summit of human ambition - I am sure it was the summit of mine.

Charles Dickens
Love, Writing, Ambition
Charles Dickens (2016). “David Copperfield (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.291, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

And the voices in the waves are always whispering to Florence, in their ceaseless murmuring, of love - of love, eternal and illimitable, not bounded by the confines of this world, or by the end of time, but ranging still, beyond the sea, beyond the sky, to the invisible country far away!

Charles Dickens
Love, Country, Sea
Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.502

We know, Mr. Weller - we, who are men of the world - that a good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later.

Charles Dickens
Love, Men, World
'Pickwick Papers' (1837) ch. 37 (The Gentleman in Blue)

You anticipate what I would say, though you cannot know how earnestly I say it, how earnestly I feel it, without knowing my secret heart, and the hopes and fears and anxieties with which it has long been laden. Dear Doctor Manette, I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disinterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her.

Charles Dickens
Love, Daughter, Heart
charles dickens (1868). “a tale of two cities”, p.122

If you will take me for your wife, Walter, I will love you dearly. If you will let me go with you, Walter, I will go to the world's end without fear. I can give up nothing for you - I have nothing to resign, and no one to forsake; but all my love and life shall be devoted to you, and with my last breath I will breathe your name to God if I have sense and memory left.

Charles Dickens
Love, Giving Up, Memories
Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne (1848). “Dombey and Son”, p.505

Opening her eyes again, and seeing her husband's face across the table, she leaned forward to give it a pat on the cheek, and sat down to supper, declaring it to be the best face in the world.

Charles Dickens
Love, Husband, Eye
Charles Dickens (1868). “The Works of Charles Dickens ...”, p.260

You have no idea what it is to have anybody wonderful fond of you, unless you have been got down and rolled upon by the lonely feelings that I have mentioned as having once got the better of me.

Charles Dickens
Love, Lonely, Ideas
Charles Dickens (1868). “Christmas Stories from "Household Words" and "All the Year Round"”, p.392

"Mine ain't a selfish affection, you know," said Mr. Toots, in the confidence engendered by his having been a witness of the Captain's tenderness. "It's the sort of thing with me, Captain Gills, that if I could be run over - or - or trampled upon - or - or thrown off a very high place -or anything of that sort - for Miss Dombey's sake, it would be the most delightful thing that could happen to me."

Charles Dickens
Love, Running, Selfish
Charles Dickens (1890*). “Works”

I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly settle in my mind is, that the end will absolutely come. I hold her hand in mine, I hold her heart in mine, I see her love for me, alive in all its strength. I cannot shut out a pale lingering shadow of belief that she will be spared.

Charles Dickens
Love, Heart, Hands
Charles Dickens (1850). “The Personal History of David Copperfield”, p.543

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

Charles Dickens
Love, Kissing, Lips
Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.217

"O' course I came to look arter you, my darlin'," replied Mr. Weller; for once permitting his passion to get the better of his veracity.

Charles Dickens
Love, Passion, Looks
Charles Dickens (1838). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.270

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

Charles Dickens
Love, Self Love
Charles Dickens (1841). “Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty”, p.74

Now, Bella suspected by this time that Mr. Rokesmith admired her. Whether the knowledge (for it was rather that than suspicion) caused her to incline to him a little more, or a little less, than she had done at first; whether it rendered her eager to find out more about him, because she sought to establish reason for her distrust, or because she sought to free him from it; was as yet dark to her own heart. But at most times he occupied a great amount of her attention.

Charles Dickens
Love, Heart, Dark
Charles Dickens (1868). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.71

Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering.

Charles Dickens
Love, Suffering, Flight
Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.241

"You see," said Mr. Toots, "what I wanted in a wife was - in short, was sense. Money, Feeder, I had. Sense I - I had not, particularly."

Charles Dickens
Love, Wife, Said
Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.4285, Delphi Classics

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