Oliver Twist Quotes

“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

“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

topic:writing books

“It is a world of disappointment: often to the hopes we most cherish, and hopes that do our nature the greatest honour.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

topic:hope

“Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“The great principle of out-of-door relief is, to give the paupers exactly what they don't want; and then they get tired of coming.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

topic:poverty

“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, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

topic:poverty

“How slight a thing will disturb the equanimity of our frail minds!”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

topic:mind

“There is only one thing I should like better; and that would be to see the Philosopher making the same sort of meal himself, with the same relish.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“The sun—the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man—burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and...”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

topic:light equality sun

“Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

topic:appearance

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