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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight? — Christopher Marlowe · 1593I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. — Charles Dickens · 1861I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. — Charles Dickens · 1861Love 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 · 1861There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved. — W. Somerset Maugham · 1915Constancy in love is a good thing, but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort. — Charles Dickens · 1852All 8 quotes →Being in love2 quotes
I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. — Charles Dickens · 1861I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. — Charles Dickens · 1861Charity2 quotes
Please, sir, I want some more. — Charles Dickens · 1837There were two classes of charitable people; one, the people who did a little and made a great deal of noise; the other, the people who did a great deal and made no noise at all. — Charles Dickens · 1852Childhood2 quotes
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice. — Charles Dickens · 1860For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself. — Charles Dickens · 1843Christmas2 quotes
For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself. — Charles Dickens · 1843I will honor Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year. — Charles Dickens · 1843Civilization2 quotes
I put forward as a general definition of civilization, that a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of Truth, Beauty, Adventure, Art, Peace. — Alfred North Whitehead · 1933Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. — Alfred North Whitehead · 1911Crying2 quotes
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is stuck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be. — William Hazlitt · 1818Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. — Charles Dickens · 1861Death2 quotes
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known. — Charles Dickens · 1859All partings foreshadow the great final one. — Charles Dickens · 1853Human nature2 quotes
There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast. — Charles Dickens · 1837Subdue your appetites my dears, and you've conquered human nature. — Charles Dickens · 1838Humor2 quotes
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. — William Hazlitt · 1819Comedy naturally wears itself out-destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at. — William Hazlitt · 1817Laughter2 quotes
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is stuck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be. — William Hazlitt · 1818There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor. — Charles Dickens · 1843Law2 quotes
Whoever hath an absolute authority to interpret any written, or spoken laws; it is He, who is truly the Law-giver to all intents and purposes, and not the Person who first wrote, or spoke them. — Benjamin Hoadly · 1717The one great principle of the English law is to make business for itself. — Charles Dickens · 1853Learning from suffering2 quotes
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching… I have been bent and broken, but—I hope—into a better shape. — Charles Dickens · 1861It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. — W. Somerset Maugham · 1919Life2 quotes
The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless. — Alan Watts · 1982Trifles make the sum of life. — Charles Dickens · 1850Patience2 quotes
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone. — Alan Watts · 1957Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. — Charles Dickens · 1865Progress2 quotes
It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle-they are strictly limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments. — Alfred North Whitehead · 1911Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. — Alfred North Whitehead · 1911Religion2 quotes
The religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience. — Alfred North Whitehead · 1925I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance. — Christopher Marlowe · 1593Saying goodbye2 quotes
All partings foreshadow the great final one. — Charles Dickens · 1853The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again. — Charles Dickens · 1838Suffering2 quotes
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching… I have been bent and broken, but—I hope—into a better shape. — Charles Dickens · 1861It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. — W. Somerset Maugham · 1919Travel2 quotes
The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases. — William Hazlitt · 1822One of the pleasantest things in the world is going a journey, but I like to go by myself. I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. I am then never less alone than when alone. — William Hazlitt · 1822Vulnerability2 quotes
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 · 1861Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. — Charles Dickens · 1865Wisdom2 quotes
There is a wisdom of the Head, and...a wisdom of the Heart. — Charles Dickens · 1854From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture. — W. Somerset Maugham · 1930Acceptance1 quote
Whether we like it or not, change comes, and the greater the resistance, the greater the pain. — Alan Watts · 1995Actions have consequences1 quote
I wear the chain I forged in life. — Charles Dickens · 1843Advance of civilization1 quote
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. — Alfred North Whitehead · 1911Afterlife1 quote
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known. — Charles Dickens · 1859Alienation1 quote
At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all. — H.G. Wells · 1897Alienation from oneself1 quote
At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all. — H.G. Wells · 1897Anti-war1 quote
Accurst be he that first invented war. — Christopher Marlowe · 1587Appearance vs. reality1 quote
Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule. — Charles Dickens · 1861