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. ~ Master Humphrey’s Clock
Love Quotes
Oh Agnes, Oh my soul,
Oh Agnes, Oh my soul, so may thy face be by me when I close my life indeed; so may I, when realities are melting from me, like the shadows which I now dismiss, still find thee near me, pointing upward! ~ David Copperfield
“But I am thinking like
“But I am thinking like a lover, or like an ass: which I suppose is pretty nearly the same.” ~ Nicholas Nickleby
“I’d lay down my life
“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.” ~ David Copperfield
Mine ain’t a selfish affection
“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.” ~ Dombey and Son
Her heart is given him
“Her heart–is given him, with all its love and truth. She would joyfully die with him, or, better than that, die for him. She knows he has failings, but she thinks they have grown up through his being like one cast away, for the want of something to trust in, and care for, and think well of.” ~ Our Mutual Friend
There lives at least one
“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.” ~ The Pickwick Papers
“Let’s be a comfortable couple,
“Let’s be a comfortable couple, and take care of each other! And if we should get deaf, or lame, or blind, or bed-ridden, how glad we shall be that we have somebody we are fond of, always to talk to and sit with!” ~ Nicholas Nickleby
Love is in all things
Love is in all things a most wonderful teacher. ~ Our Mutual Friend
“A heart well worth winning,
“A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.” ~ Our Mutual Friend