Quotes
Quotes - Dickens
A demd, damp, moist, unpleasant body!
He has gone to the demnition bow-wows.
My life is one demd horrid grind.
He had used the word in a Pickwickian sense.
Did it ever strike you on such a morning as this that drowning would be happiness and peace?
The wictim of connubiality.
I am a lone lorn creetur and everythink goes contrairy with me.
Barkis is willin'.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.
I never will desert Mr. Micawber.
Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, all very good words for the lips,--especially prunes and prism.
Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving HOW NOT TO DO IT.
Secret and self-contained and solitary as an oyster.
In came Mrs. Fezziwig, one vast substantial smile.
He's tough, ma'am,--tough is J. B.; tough and devilish sly.
When found, make a note of.
The bearings of this observation lays in the application on it.
Oh, Sairey, Sairey, little do we know what lays before us!
Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.
Not to put too fine a point upon it.
"If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, "the law is a ass, a idiot."
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden on it to anyone else.
Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
