Charles Dickens, David Copperfield Quotes

I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

the sight of me is good for sore eyes

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us, my dear. We must learn to act the play out. We must live misfortune down, Trot!

The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I believe when we go back to them

It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have.

There can't be a quarrel without two parties, and I won't be one. I will be a friend to you in spite of you. So now you know what you've got to expect

I have remembered Who wept for a parting between the living and the dead.

His was not a lazy trustfulness that hoped, and did no more.

You deepen the injury. It is sufficient already.

To have all those noble Romans alive before me, and walking in and out for my entertainment, instead of being the stern taskmasters they had been at school, was a most novel and delightful effect.

...I hope that simple love and truth will be strong in the end. I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

For our path in life...is stony and rugged now, and it rests with us to smooth it. We must fight our way onward. We must be brave. There are obstacles to be met, and we must meet, and crush them!

The society of girls is a very delightful thing, Copperfield. It's not professional, but it's very delightful.

There never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death.

have you taken leave of your senses

Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.

I recollect it was settled by general consent that India was quite a misrepresented country, and had nothing objectionable in it, but a tiger or two, and a little heat in the warm part of the day.

what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.