Quotes

"Lord bless you!" said Mr. Omer, resuming his pipe, "a man must take the fat with the lean; that's what he must make up his mind to, in this life. " ~ David Copperfield by Charles Dickens "Yes. He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own." ~ David Copperfield by Charles Dickens "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!" ~ David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 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. ~ David Copperfield by Charles Dickens "Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families." ~ David Copperfield by Charles Dickens . . . skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape. ~ David Copperfield by Charles Dickens "Peggotty!" repeated Miss Betsey, with some indignation. "Do you mean to say, child, that any human being has gone into a Christian church, and got herself named Peggotty?" ~ David Copperfield by Charles Dickens "I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world." ~ David Copperfield by Charles Dickens "What such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance." ~ David Copperfield by Charles Dickens I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished. ~ David Copperfield by Charles Dickens