Nicholas Nickleby Quotes

“My life is one demd horrid grind.”

“Wine in; truth out.”

“A demd, damp, moist, unpleasant body!”

“I pity his ignorance and despise him.”

“He has gone to the demnition bow-wows.”

“Oh! they're too beautiful to live, much too beautiful!”

“Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.”

“Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.”

“He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.”

“Formalities, formalities, must not be neglected in civilized society.”

“There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.”

“Miss Knag still aimed at youth, although she had shot beyond it, years ago.”

“Look to yourself, and heed this warning that I give you! Your day is past, and night is coming on.”

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“How can you capture the sympathies of the audience unless you have a small man, fighting against a bigger one?”

“A man in public life expects to be sneered at—it is the fault of his elevated sitiwation, and not of himself.”

“Of all fruitless errands, sending a tear to look after a day that is gone is the most fruitless.”

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“That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.”