Old Curiosity Shop Quotes

#1. I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.

Anne Rice

#2. Never did get my curiosity cured,' she said. 'Some people sit around and wait for the world to poke them. Right here in this old curiosity shop of a world, they say, 'Poke me, world,' Well, you have to keep the challenges coming on. Make them up if necessary.

William Least Heat-Moon

#3. In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop.

Robert Benchley

#4. You haven't beaten me. You have sacrificed sure footing for a killing stroke.

Henri

#5. I'm not defined by where I came from.

Katy Perry

#6. He brought in the bread, cheese, and beer, with many high encomiums upon their excellence.

Charles Dickens

#7. Communists had it all wrong. It wasn't the rich who were imprisoned by their possessions, it was the poor.

Jade Chang

#8. Most people don't have a clue what our volunteers really do.

George Devault

#9. How great are the advantages of solitude! How sublime is the silence of nature's ever-active energies! There is something in the very name of wilderness, which charms the ear, and soothes the spirit of man. There is religion in it.

Estwick Evans

#10. Virtue must shape itself in deed.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#11. God's Will is what we would choose if we knew what God knows.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss