“Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.”
More from Charles Dickens on Love
“A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.”
“It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.”
“Our love had begun in folly, and ended in madness!”
“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.”
“I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.”
“There are strings in the human heart which must never be sounded by another, and drinks that I make myself are those strings in mine.”
“The broken heart. You think you will die, but you keep living, day after day after terrible day.”
Others on Love
Atticus Poetry
20 quotes“I’ll let you into my heart but wipe your feet at the door.”
Pablo Neruda
19 quotes“You are like nobody since I love you.”
Leo Buscaglia
17 quotes“Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to lov...”
Lord Byron
16 quotes“I have not loved the world nor the world me I have not flatter'd its rank breath nor bow'd To its idolatries a patien...”
Khalil Gibran
16 quotes“And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
Mother Teresa
15 quotes“When you judge someone you have no time to love them.”
Nicholas Sparks
15 quotes“Gifts of the heart can't be claimed by anyone except the giver.”
John Donne
14 quotes“If ever any beauty I did see,Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.”
Rumi
14 quotes“There are as many ways of loving as there are people, and that wildflower variety is the great beauty of this dimension...”
Shakespeare
14 quotes“I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.”
Balzac
13 quotes“The more a man judges, the less he loves”
Gabriel García Márquez
13 quotes“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”