Mr Pickwick Quotes

#1. Mr. Pickwick was no sluggard, and he sprang like an ardent warrior from his tent-bedstead.

Charles Dickens

#2. Hush. Don't ask any questions. It's always best on these occasions to do what the mob do."
"But suppose there are two mobs?" suggested Mr. Snodgrass.
"Shout with the largest," replied Mr. Pickwick.
Volumes could not have said more.

Charles Dickens

#3. Such,' thought Mr. Pickwick, 'are the narrow views of those philosophers who, content with examining the things that lie before them, look not to the truths which are hidden beyond.

Charles Dickens

#4. Mr. Pickwick gazed through his spectacles for an instant on the advancing mass, and then fairly turned his back and
we will not say fled; firstly because it is an ignoble term, and, secondly, because Mr. Pickwick's figure was by no means adapted for that mode of retreat ...

Charles Dickens

#5. Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness - than Cardinal Newman's Lead Kindly Light Amid the Encircling Gloom. Newman only cried out for light in the gloom of a sad world. Dickens gave it.

Stephen Leacock

#6. Mr. Pickwick was a philosopher, but philosophers are only men in armour, after all.

Charles Dickens

#7. I hope,' said Mr. Pickwick, 'that our volatile friend is committing no absurdities in that dickey behind.

Charles Dickens

#8. But it's all about confidence and allowing yourself to put your personality into it. I really am the worst singer on the planet; I make people cry and vomit when I sing.

Drew Barrymore

#9. Here is the basic question: Are we marionettes, or are we creatures of free will who just happen to have a lot of jerky reflexes?

Robert Breault

#10. Just what does one wear on a sorta, kind date with someone when you're in love with someone else?

Harper Bentley

#11. Annant is Pickwick paperless, the hunter of wisdom and due to Lovelace heart, a budding poet-ass.

Aporva Kala

#12. Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature.

Alvar Aalto

#13. Dill said striking a match under a turtle was hateful.
"Ain't hateful, just persuades him- 's not like you'd chunk him in the fire," Jem growled.
"How do you know a match don't hurt him?"
"Turtles can't feel , stupid," said Jem.
"Were you ever a turtle, huh?

Harper Lee

#14. Ever read a story that you simply can't imagine how it will end? This place is like that. The best things in life are like that.

Sarah Addison Allen

#15. I would just have to find a hog, slaughter it, butcher it, cure the meat, then fry it up. Thinking about the bacon - the potential of bacon - gives me hope. Not all is lost if bacon isn't. Seriously.

Rick Yancey

#16. In The Pickwick Papers, a man is said to have read up in the Britannica on Chinese metaphysics. There was, however, no such article: He read for metaphysics under the letter M, and for China under the letter C, and combined his information.

James Gleick

#17. It only shows how true the old saying is, that a man never knows what he can do till he tries, gentlemen. From "Pickwick Papers" ch. 49 page 646

Charles Dickens

#18. Among all shravakas and pratyekabuddhas, bodhisattvas are the foremost. So is the Lotus Sutra; among all sutras, it is the foremost! Just as the Buddha is the King of the Law; so is the Lotus Sutra, it is the King of all Sutras!
(LS 23:2.16)
Lotus Sutra, Chapter 23, Section 2, Paragraph 16

Gautama Buddha

#19. I suggest you all ask your mothers to make you some smiles and keep them in your pockets. If you ever find any one feeling sad or frightened or angry, then you can give them a smile and you will see what a change takes place.

Deepak Menon

#20. With television, I worked on 'Lost,' where you'd just put your faith in the writers and go with what they're writing.

Henry Ian Cusick

#21. My muse must come to me on union time.

George Balanchine

#22. It actually amazes me that there are people like that, who talk and talk and talk but have never been punched in the face; who just yell at each other and pray that a bouncer comes. I find that legitimately fascinating.

Paul Lazenby