Please, sir, I want some more.Oliver Twist
Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name.Narrator
It’s not a large world after all. It’s the opportunity of almost everyone’s life—to ruin a great cause by his own folly.Mrs. Maylie
Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.Charles Dickens
Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercise, even over the appearance of external objects.Charles Dickens
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
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
If the law supposes that, the law is a ass—a idiot.Mr. Bumble
He needn't have taken the trouble to shrink from Mr. Brownlow's glance, however; for that gentleman had turned his back upon the company, and was intent upon the book before him.Narrator
Some people are nobody’s enemies but their own.Charles Dickens