Charles Dickens Oliver Twist Quotes

#1. CHAPTER XV* SHEWING HOW VERY FOND OF OLIVER TWIST, THE MERRY OLD JEW AND MISS NANCY WERE

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#2. CHAPTER XVI RELATES WHAT BECAME OF OLIVER TWIST, AFTER HE HAD BEEN CLAIMED BY NANCY

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#3. I always loved that boy as if he'd been my
my
my own grandfather.

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#4. I destroyed that doll, hoping the sacrifice would somehow reverse time and bring my father back. I was a mad scientist and an angry child.

Walter Mosley

#5. You cannot speak of ocean to a well-frog, the creature of a narrower sphere. You cannot speak of ice to a summer insect, the creature of a season.

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#6. Holidays - Have no pity.

Eugenio Montale

#7. Art is an extension of friendship, a reaching out to the world.

Marty Rubin

#8. As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn't seen him on their box, buy the paperback.

William Golding

#9. Oliver Twist has asked for more!

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#10. For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this word stood out so strikingly from the consistent discouragement around him.

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#11. Please, sir, I want some more.

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#12. There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.

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#13. If we were to reengineer the DVR, we would cut America's energy bill by 5%.

Rick Smolan

#14. What a fine thing capital punishment is! Dead men never repent; dead men never bring awkward stories to light. The prospect of the gallows, too, makes them hardy and bold. Ah, it's a fine thing for the trade! Five of them strung up in a row, and none left to play booty or turn white-livered!

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#15. I think cynicism often disguises itself as humour.

Michka Assayas

#16. APPENDIX 4 THE THIEVES' LANGUAGE IN OLIVER TWIST

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#17. Laziness bears the fruit of hunger and crimes, and those who choose the right path are those willing to pay the price

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#18. EXPLANATORY NOTES A NOTE ON THE TOPOGRAPHY OF OLIVER TWIST

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#19. APPENDIX 2 THE PREFACE TO OLIVER TWIST AND THE NEWGATE NOVEL CONTROVERSY

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#20. Some of you might go out and kill Communists, but that is no longer a fashionable thing to do. And you wouldn't be killing real Communists anyway. This country has fulfilled more of the requirements of the Communist Manifesto than any avowedly Communist nation ever did. Maybe we're the Communists.

Kurt Vonnegut

#21. Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.

Sam Snead

#22. It is wonderful how Virtue turns from dirty stockings; and how Vice, married to ribbons and a little gay attire, changes her name, as wedded ladies do, and becomes Romance.
From Charles Dickens' Preface to Oliver Twist, printed in 1841

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#23. To do a great right, you may do a little wrong; and you may take any means which the end to be attained will justify.

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#24. I'll eat my head!

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