35 Oliver Twist Quotes About Poverty, Crime & Love

Oliver Twist Quotes

Listed below are the very best Oliver Twist quotes from the ebook from characters together with Oliver, Fagin, Nancy, Rose and Mr. Bumble quotes:

1. ‘Please, sir, I need some extra.’ — Oliver (Chapter 2)
2. “Each commerce has its draw-backs.” — Mr. Bumble (Chapter 4)
3. “Each man’s his personal good friend, my expensive.” — Fagin (Chapter 43)
4. “Some individuals are no person’s enemies however their very own” — Morris Bolter (Chapter 43)
5. “Dignity, and even holiness too, generally, are extra questions of coat and waistcoat than some folks think about.” — Narrator (Chapter 37)
6. ”I hope you say your prayers each night time,” mentioned one other gentleman in a gruff voice; “and pray for the individuals who feed you, and deal with you…” — Mr. Bumble (Chapter 2)
7. “You may have a good friend in me, Nance; a staunch good friend. I’ve the means at hand, quiet and shut. If you need revenge on people who deal with you want a canine… come to me. I say, come to me.” — Fagin (Chapter 44)
8. “Let the tears which fell, and the damaged phrases which had been exchanged within the lengthy shut embrace between the orphans, be sacred.” — Narrator (Chapter 51)
9. “Males who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that each one is darkish and gloomy, are in the proper; however the somber colours are reflections from their very own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The true hues are delicate, and want a clearer imaginative and prescient.” — Narrator (Chapter 24)
10. “There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the very best elements.” — Mr. Brownlow (Chapter 14)
11. “It’s as a result of I believe a lot of heat and delicate hearts, that I might spare them from being wounded.” — Mrs. Maylie (Chapter 34)
12. The straightforward reality was, that Oliver, as a substitute of possessing too little feeling, possessed fairly an excessive amount of; and was in a good means of being diminished, for all times, to a state of brutal stupidity and sullenness by the ill-usage he had acquired. — Narrator (Chapter 4)
13. “My coronary heart is about, as firmly as ever coronary heart of man was set on lady. I’ve no thought, no view, no hope, in life past her; and in case you oppose me on this nice stake, you are taking my peace and happiness in your fingers, and solid them to the wind.” — Harry Maylie (Chapter 34)
14. “The solar,–the brilliant solar, that brings again, not mild alone, however new life, and hope, and freshness to man–burst upon the crowded metropolis in clear and radiant glory. By costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, by means of cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.” — Narrator (Chapter 48)
15. Oh! the suspense, the fearful, acute suspense, of standing idly by whereas the life of 1 we dearly love, is trembling within the steadiness! — Narrator (Chapter 33)
16. the DESPERATE ANXIETY TO BE DOING SOMETHING to alleviate the ache, or reduce the hazard, which we now have no energy to alleviate; — Narrator (Chapter 33)
17. “I do know that she deserves the very best and purest love the center of man can provide,” mentioned Mrs. Maylie; “I do know that the devotion and affection of her nature require no abnormal return, however one which shall be deep and lasting.” — Mrs. Maylie (Chapter 34)
18. “Ladies can all the time put issues in fewest phrases. Besides when it’s blowing up; after which they lengthens it out.” — Mr Sikes (Chapter 20)
19. There’s a sort of sleep that steals upon us generally, which, whereas it holds the physique prisoner, doesn’t free the thoughts from a way of issues about it, and allow it to ramble at its pleasure. — Narrator (Chapter 34)
20. we all know, Heaven assist us! that the very best and fairest of our variety, too typically fade in blooming. — Harry Maylie (Chapter 35)
21. “However, tears weren’t the issues to search out their solution to Mr. Bumble’s soul; his coronary heart was waterproof.” — Narrator (Chapter 37)
22. “It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, workout routines the eyes, and softens down the mood, mentioned Mr. Bumble. So cry away.” — Mr. Bumble (Chapter 37)
23. “He was an expensive, grateful, mild little one, sir,” retorted Mrs. Bedwin, indignantly. “I do know what kids are, sir; and have carried out these forty years; and individuals who can’t say the identical, shouldn’t say something about them.” — Mrs. Bedwin (Chapter 17)
24. “However even when he has been depraved,” pursued Rose, “assume how younger he’s; assume that he could by no means have recognized a mom’s love, or the consolation of a house; that ill-usage and blows, or the need of bread, could have pushed him to herd with males who’ve pressured him to guilt.” — Rose (Chapter 30)
25. It was a contented time. The times had been peaceable and serene; the nights introduced with them neither worry nor care; no languishing in a wretched jail, or associating with wretched males; nothing however nice and joyful ideas. — Narrator (Chapter 32)
26. “if I had solely had the braveness to say the phrase, I might need been freed from you in an evening. Curses in your head, and black loss of life in your coronary heart, you imp! What are you doing right here?” — Gentleman (Chapter 33)
27. “there’s a stain upon my title, which the world visits on harmless heads. I’ll carry it into no blood however my very own; and the reproach shall relaxation alone on me.” — Rose (Chapter 35)
28. ‘Good coaching is all the time fascinating, whether or not the race be for place, cup, or sweepstakess.’ — Physician (Chapter 36)
29. “Though the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there too, I’ve not made a coffin of my coronary heart, and sealed it up for ever on my greatest affections. Deep affliction has solely made them stronger; it ought, I believe, for it ought to refine our nature. — Mr. Brownlow (Chapter 14)
30. Bleak, darkish, and piercing chilly, it was an evening for the well-housed and fed to attract spherical the brilliant fireplace, and thank God they had been at house; and for the homeless ravenous wretch to put him down and die. — Narrator (Chapter 23)
31. Many hunger-worn outcasts shut their eyes in our naked streets, at such occasions, who, let their crimes have been what they might, can hardly open them in a extra bitter world. — Narrator (Chapter 23)
32. Converse the reality, and also you shall not be friendless whereas I reside. — Mr. Brownlow (Chapter 14)
33. I by no means lock up my cash, for I’ve obtained none to lock up, my expensive—ha! ha! ha!—none to lock up. — Fagin (Chapter 39)
34. “Thank Heaven upon your knees, expensive woman,” cried the lady, “that you just had associates to look after and preserve you in your childhood, and that you just had been by no means within the midst of chilly and starvation, and riot and drunkenness, and—and—one thing worse than all—as I’ve been from my cradle. — Nancy (Chapter 40)
35. I need to return. Whether or not it’s God’s wrath for the fallacious I’ve carried out, I have no idea; however I’m drawn again to him by means of each struggling and sick utilization; and I must be, I consider, if I knew that I used to be to die by his hand eventually. — Nancy (Chapter 40)
36. “You are able to do nothing to assist me. I’m previous all hope, certainly. — Nancy (Chapter 46)
37. “You’ve been introduced up dangerous,” mentioned the Dodger, surveying his boots with a lot satisfaction when Oliver had polished them. “Fagin will make one thing of you, although, otherwise you’ll be the primary he ever had that turned out unprofitable. — Dodger (Chapter 18)