Mr Peggotty Quotes

#1. Every night,' said Mr. Peggotty, 'as reg'lar as the night comes, the candle must be stood in its old pane of glass, that if ever she should see it, it may seem to say, Come back, my child, come back!

Charles Dickens

#2. Ice cream was reliable. Young men were not.

Kerry Greenwood

#3. I also like to eat very much, so I like all different types of foods.

Peter Steele

#4. "Peggotty!" repeated Miss Betsey, with some indignation. "Do you mean to say, child, that any human being has gone into a Christian church, and got herself named Peggotty?"

Charles Dickens

#5. Sometimes eight chains go together really well, depending on the length - how short they are, how small they are.

Big Sean

#6. I don't know how it is,' said Peggotty, 'unless it's on account of being stupid, but my head never can pick and choose its people. They come and they go, and they don't come and they don't go, just as they like. I wonder what's become of her?

Charles Dickens

#7. If this was cynical, then we must allow that all courtship is cynical.

Zoe Heller

#8. Peggotty always went to sleep with her chin upon the handle of the basket, her hold of which never relaxed; and I could not have believed unless I had heard her do it, that one defenceless woman could have snored so much.

Charles Dickens

#9. I grew up in athletics, where people keep score.

Phil McGraw

#10. It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.

Robert Herrick

#11. The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.

Minot Judson Savage