Top 24 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. Harness your mind's power
and you can reach the mountaintop.
Harness your heart's power
and you can reach the stars.
Harness your soul's power
and you can reach the edge of the universe.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#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. An adaptation I was working on of Trollope's 'The Pallisers' has been axed by the BBC ... I was also going to do Dickens' 'Dombey and Son' but they've asked me to do 'David Copperfield' instead.
Andrew Davies
#6. 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
#7. I think one of the few faults in Dickens is that mostly his lead characters are blanks - who is David Copperfield, who is Oliver Twist? And yet he takes such joy in populating the rest of his novels with these fantastic, grotesque people like Pecksmith and so on.
Mark Gatiss
#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. I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination, passionate remonstrance, a sense of injustice-they all make fine fuel.
Edna Ferber
#11. Feel! Feel, feel, feel! Feelings were disrupting my sense of well-being.
Graeme Simsion
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. I'm a quirky, intelligent, dark haired chick! Me, me, me, pick me! And who the hell keeps whining and ruining my perfect moment? I will cut a bitch.
Tara Sivec
#15. Sometimes the news so shocks the mind that the brain suffers an electrical short. This phenomenon is known as a "psychogenic" syndrome, a severe version of the swoon some experience after hearing bad news.
Paul Kalanithi
#16. Where would David Copperfield be if Dickens had gone to writing classes? Probably about seventy minor characters short, is where. (Did you know that Dickens is estimated to have invented thirteen thousand characters? Thirteen thousand! The population of a small town!)
Nick Hornby
#17. Natural grass is a wonderful thing for little bugs and sinkerball pitchers.
Dan Quisenberry
#18. If somebody never gets enough of you, they will always want more
Ashly Lorenzana
#19. Go my friend
bestow your love
even on your enemies
if you touch their hearts
what do you think will happen.
Rumi
#20. You are me, and I am you. Isn't it obvious that we "inter-are"? You cultivate the flower in yourself, so that I will be beautiful. I transform the garbage in myself, so that you will not have to suffer.
Nhat Hanh
#22. My impression is, after many years of consideration, that there never can have been anybody in the world who played worse.
Charles Dickens
#23. 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
#24. in my four months of legal cramming I'd learned the law is full of technicalities. Technicalities are what screw up justice. Wilcox
Frank W. Abagnale
