Pickwick Quotes

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

Charles Dickens

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

Charles Dickens

#3. 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

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

Aporva Kala

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

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

Charles Dickens

#11. Bin Laden was 200 miles away from the area where all of these drone strikes were taking out his key leaders, he was able to indulge in his hobbies ... and he was making occasional video tapes and audio tapes to the wider world.

Peter L. Bergen

#12. 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

#13. If you want to achieve your highest aspirations and overcome your greatest challenges, identify and apply the principle or natural law that governs the results you seek.

Stephen R. Covey

#14. Epilogues are for Tolstoy

E. M. Forster

#15. The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.

Pierre Charron

#16. I don't think of myself predicting things. I'm expressing possibilities. Things that could happen. To a large extent it's a question of how badly people want them to.

Freeman Dyson

#17. Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.

Adam Smith