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Oliver Twist quotes

Charles Dickens

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“Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to.” Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
“They seemed so like the rats he had seen outside.” Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
“It is a world of disappointment: often to the hopes we most cherish, and hopes that do our nature the greatest honour.” Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
“But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.” Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
“How slight a thing will disturb the equanimity of our frail minds!” Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.” Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
“Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.” Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
“Some people are nobody's enemies but their own, yer know.” Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
“women can always put things in fewest words.—Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out.” Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
“Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.” Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
“Gradually, he fell into that deep tranquil sleep which ease from recent suffering alone imparts; that calm and peaceful rest which it is pain to wake from. Who, if this were death, would be roused again to all the struggles and turmoils of life;...” Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
“Oh! the suspense, the fearful, acute suspense, of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance!” Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
“His face was stern, and much flushed. If he were really not in the habit of drinking rather more than was exactly good for him, he might have brought action against his countenance for libel, and have recovered heavy damages.” Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
“The sun—the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man—burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and...” Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
“He was too well accustomed to suffering, and had suffered too much where he was, to bewail the prospect of change very severely.” Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
“Joy and grief were mingled in the cup; but there were no bitter tears: for even grief itself arose so softened, and clothed in such sweet and tender recollections, that it became a solemn pleasure, and lost all character of pain.” Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
“The great principle of out-of-door relief is, to give the paupers exactly what they don't want; and then they get tired of coming.” Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
“it is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.” Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
“Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercise, even over the appearance of external objects.” Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
“Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse” Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
“Please, sir, I want some more.” Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
“Although Oliver had been brought up by philosophers, he was not theoretically acquainted with the beautiful axiom that self-preservation is the first law of nature.” Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
“my heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope in life, beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.” Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
“There is only one thing I should like better; and that would be to see the Philosopher making the same sort of meal himself, with the same relish.” Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

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