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On this page you
will find quotes from a few books by Charles Dickens. To see the
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each quote.
(Martin
Chuzzlewitt - David Copperfield - The Curiosity Shop - Nicholas Nickleby
Dombey and
Son - Little Dorrit - The Pickwick Papers - Oliver Twist - A Christmas
Carol)
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1, "Yes. He is quite a good fellow
- nobody's enemy but his own."
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2, " . . . accidents will occur in the best-regulated families
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3, Annual income twenty pounds, annual
expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual
income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and
six, result misery.
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4, 'If the law supposes that,' said
Mr Bumble ... 'the law is a ass-a idiot'.
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5, "Kent,
sir everybody knows Kent apples, cherries, hops
and women."
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6, "It was as true . . . as turnips is. It was as true
. . . as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them."
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7, . . she stood for some moments
gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation
out of the other.
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8,"Battledore and shuttlecock's
a wery good game, vhen you ain't the shuttlecock and two lawyers
the battledores, in which case it gets too excitin' to be pleasant."
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9,"Barkis is willin'."
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10,"She dotes on poetry, sir.
She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound
up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces,
herself, sir. You may have met with her `Ode to an Expiring Frog,'
sir."
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11,"Let me see you ride a donkey
over my green again, and as sure as you have a head upon your shoulders,
I'll knock your bonnet off, and tread upon it!”
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12,"Rich folks may ride on camels,
but it an't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye. That is
my comfort, and I hope I knows it." |
13, But, tears were not the things
to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.
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14, "Oh!" said my aunt, "I
was not aware at first to whom I had the pleasure of objecting."
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15, "...As to sleep, you know,
I never sleep now. I might be a Watchman, except that I don't get
any pay, and he's got nothing on his mind."
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16,It is a fair, even-handed, noble
adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and
sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious
as laughter and good-humour
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17,"But the words she spoke of
Mrs Harris, lambs could not forgive . . . nor worms forget."
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18,"God bless us every one!"
said Tiny Tim, the last of all.
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19,"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."
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20,"Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes, and prism, are all very
good words for the lips: especially prunes and prism."
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21," . . . Yes. He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy
but his own."
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22, "If you could see my legs when I
take my boots off, you'd form some idea of what unrequited affection
is."
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23, The
day was made for laziness, and lying on one's back in green places,
and staring at the sky till its brightness forced one to shut one's
eyes and go to sleep . . .
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24, ". . . Ride on! Rough-shod if need
be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles,
and win the race!"
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25,"We never knows wot's hidden
in each other's hearts; and if we had glass winders there,
we'd need keep the shutters up, some on us, I do assure you!"
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26,"Bah!" said Scrooge.
"Humbug!"
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27,Heaven above was blue, and earth
beneath was green; the river glistened like a path of diamonds in
the sun; the birds poured forth their songs from the shady trees;
the lark soared high above the waving corn; and the deep buzz of
insects filled the air.
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28, Dumb as a drum vith a hole in it,
sir."
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