Charles Dickens David Copperfield Quotes

#1. It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present. Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

David Nicholls

#2. At some point your candle will go out, so make use of the light.

Shaun Hick

#3. I never had to cheat, I get them with what I got.

Dave Winfield

#4. I go home in a state of unspeakable bliss, and waltz in imagination, all night long, with my arm around the blue waist of my dear divinity.

Charles Dickens

#5. David Copperfield from head to foot! Calls a house a rookery when there's not a rook near it, and takes the birds on trust, because he sees the nests!

Charles Dickens

#6. Only those who have the courage to fail greatly achieve greatly.

Robert Kennedy

#7. Coming [to Paris] has been a wonderful experience, surprising in many respects, one of them being to find how much of an American I am.

Augustus Saint-Gaudens

#8. But, like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is David Copperfield

Charles Dickens

#9. Before familiarity can turn into awareness the familiar must be stripped of its inconspicuousness; we must give up assuming that the object in question needs no explanation. However frequently recurrent, modest, vulgar it may be it will now be be labeled as something unusual.

Bertolt Brecht

#10. If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

Bill Gates

#11. When I have come to you, at last (as I have always done), I have come to
peace and happiness. I come home, now, like a tired traveller, and find
such a blessed sense of rest!

Charles Dickens

#12. Many books have mattered enormously to my life and work. 'David Copperfield' by Charles Dickens would be one of several contenders for 'most influential.' I first read it at 13 and have reread it dozens of times since.

Cheryl Mendelson

#13. I may some day get a boyfriend and eventually a husband, but you will always be my first loves." -Sheetal, 14, Qatar

Jazmin Williams

#14. There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.

Anne Nicol Gaylor

#15. Birth deals us out a hand of cards, but as important as their value is the place we are dealt them in.

David Mitchell

#16. On these sands and in the clefts of the rocks, in the depths of the sea, in the creaking of the pines, you'll spy secret footprints and catch far-off voices from the homecoming celebration. This land still longs for Odysseus.

Homer

#17. Attica! Attica! Attica!

Al Pacino

#18. Blind, blind, blind . . .

Charles Dickens

#19. My impression is, after many years of consideration, that there never can have been anybody in the world who played worse.

Charles Dickens

#20. The mother who lay in the grave, was the mother of my infancy; the little creature in her arms, was myself, as I had once been, hushed for ever on her bosom.

Charles Dickens

#21. The dark side is emotion, Bane. Anger, hate, love, lust. These are what make us strong, Peace is a lie. There is only passion. Your passion is still there, Bane. Seek it out. Reclaim it.

Drew Karpyshyn