Oliver Twist Quotes

“Oh! the suspense, the fearful, acute suspense, of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance!”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

topic:love

“Gradually, he fell into that deep tranquil sleep which ease from recent suffering alone imparts; that calm and peaceful rest which it is pain to wake from. Who, if this were death, would be roused again to all the struggles and turmoils of life;...”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

topic:death past

“women can always put things in fewest words.—Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

topic:women words

“my heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope in life, beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

topic:heart woman

“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, Oliver Twist

topic:heart darkness eyes

“But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

topic:heart

“He was too well accustomed to suffering, and had suffered too much where he was, to bewail the prospect of change very severely.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

topic:pain change suffering

“it is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

topic:pain kindness

“Joy and grief were mingled in the cup; but there were no bitter tears: for even grief itself arose so softened, and clothed in such sweet and tender recollections, that it became a solemn pleasure, and lost all character of pain.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

topic:pain joy grief

“Although Oliver had been brought up by philosophers, he was not theoretically acquainted with the beautiful axiom that self-preservation is the first law of nature.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

topic:nature philosophy

1
2
3

© Copyright 2024 QuoteImageAI