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“But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble’s soul; his heart was waterproof.” (Oliver Twist Quotes)
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
“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
“For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this word stood out so strikingly from the consistent discouragement around him.”
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist
“He spoke in hard and angry earnest, if a man ever did,” replied the girl, shaking her head. “He is an earnest man when his hatred is up. I know many who do worse things; but I’d rather listen to them all a dozen times, than to that Monks once.”
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist
“I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil.”
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
“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.” (Oliver Twist Quotes)
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist
“Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred. A father, sister, and mother, were gained, and lost, in that one moment. Joy and grief were mingled in the cup; but there were no bitter tears: for even grief 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
“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
“Some people are nobody’s enemies but their own.”
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist
“Some people are nobody’s enemies but their own, yer know.”
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist
“Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. 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
“Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.”
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist
“The fact is, that there was considerable difficulty in inducing Oliver to take upon himself the office of respiration,—a troublesome practice, but one which custom has rendered necessary to our easy existence; and for some time he lay gasping on a little flock mattress, rather unequally poised between this world and the next: the balance being decidedly in favour of the latter.”
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist
“The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there too, I have not made a coffin of my heart, and sealed it up for ever on my best affections. Deep affliction has only made them stronger; it ought, I think, for it should refine our nature.”
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist
“The simple fact was, that Oliver, instead of possessing too little feeling, possessed rather too much, and was in a fair way of being reduced to a state of brutal stupidity and sullenness for life, by the ill usage he had received.” (Oliver Twist Quotes)
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist
“The worm does not his work more surely on the dead body, than does this slow creeping fire upon the living frame.”
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist
“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
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
