The Pickwick Papers Quotes

“Keep yourself TO yourself.”

“She knows wot's wot, she does.”

“I wants to make your flesh creep.”

“Dumb as a drum vith a hole in it, Sir.”

“He had used the word in its Pickwickian sense.”

“Never mind the character, and stick to the alleybi.”

“It's my opinion, sir, that this meeting is drunk, sir.”

“You're a amiably-disposed young man, Sir, I don't think.”

“Mr. Weller's knowledge of London was extensive and peculiar.”

“Tongue —, well that's a wery good thing when it ain't a woman's.”

“"Eccentricities of genius, Sam," said Mr. Pickwick. "You may retire."”

“Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.”

“Kent, sir — everybody knows Kent — apples, cherries, hops, and women.”

“And a wery good name it is; only one I know that ain't got a nickname to it.”

“They don't mind it; it's a reg'lar holiday to them — all porter and skittles.”

“"It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. "It was the salmon."”

“Anythin' for a quiet life, as the man said wen he took the sitivation at the lighthouse.”

“Did it ever strike you, on such a morning as this, that drowning would be happiness and peace?”

“"It’s a wery remarkable circumstance, Sir", said Sam, "that poverty and oysters seems to go together."”

“Miss Bolo rose from the table considerably agitated, and went straight home, in a flood of tears and a sedan-chair.”