Secret and self-contained and solitary as an oyster.
More Quotes from Charles Dickens:
There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.Charles Dickens
To a young heart everything is fun.
Charles Dickens
Kent, sir -- everybody knows Kent -- apples, cherries, hops, and women.
Charles Dickens
Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.
Charles Dickens
Lizzie I never thought before, that there was a woman in the world who could affect me so much by saying so little. But don't be hard in your construction of me. You don't know what my state of mind towards you is. You don't know how you haunt me and bewilder me. You don't know how the cursed carelessness that is over-officious in helping me at every other turning of my life, WON'T help me here. You have struck it dead, I think, and I sometimes almost wish you had struck me dead along with it.
Charles Dickens
The sum of the whole is this walk and be happy walk and Be healthy. The best way to lengthen out our days is to walk steadily and with a purpose.
Charles Dickens
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Secrets QuotesBased on Keywords: self-contained
I will love you with all my heart, To have forever - never to part. This is a promise engrained in me, Take my hand and let it be.
Diana Lynn
My father was both the person who gave me reason to learn how to fight and the one who taught me the basics of fighting. He would tell me that if it was a big fight, it would probably be uneven, it wouldn't be fair.
June Jordan
Another inspiration that has helped me get through has been Lance Armstrong's story. My cancer is not nearly as bad as his, but I believe in staying motivated and keeping as fit as you can.
Grete Waitz