Martin Chuzzlewit Quotes
Works by Charles Dickens, Picaresque novels
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“He'd make a lovely corpse.”
“Keep up appearances whatever you do.”
“Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.”
“"There might be some credit in being jolly with a wife."”
“Oh, Sairey, Sairey, little do we know what lays before us!”
“Our fellow-countryman is a model of a man, quite fresh from Natur's mold!”
“With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.”
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“Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.”
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“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.”
“Here's the rule for bargains — 'Do other men, for they would do you.' That's the true business precept. All others are counterfeits.”
“Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.”
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“"Regrets," said Martin, "are the natural property of grey hairs; and I enjoy, in common with all other men, at least my share of such inheritance."”
“"I could have bore it with a thankful art. But the words she spoke of Mrs Harris, lambs could not forgive. No, Betsey!" said Mrs Gamp, in a violent burst of feeling, "nor worms forget!"”
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“"Do not repine, my friends," said Mr. Pecksniff, tenderly. "Do not weep for me. It is chronic." And with these words, after making a futile attempt to pull off his shoes, he fell into the fireplace.”
“Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There an't much credit in that. If I was very ragged and very jolly, then I should begin to feel I had gained a point, Mr Pinch.”