Pickwick's Quotes

#1. 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

#2. By a certain fate, great acts, and great eloquence have most commonly gone hand in hand, equalling and honoring each other in the same ages.

John Milton

#3. I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what makes you happy,but it's not really like that, you know? It's not that simple.

Amber Smith

#4. Remember, you and you alone are responsible for maintaining your energy. Give up blaming, complaining and excuse making, and keep taking action in the direction of your goals - however mundane or lofty they may be.

Jack Canfield

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

Charles Dickens

#6. 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

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

Aporva Kala

#8. Change your mental attitude, & the World around you will change accordingly

Napoleon Hill

#9. 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

#10. God saved us so that we could become servants of his will and dedicate ourselves to what he wants us to do

Sunday Adelaja

#11. money so they say is the root of all evil today

Roger Waters

#12. 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

#13. Music connects with the soul. I think it's the quickest art form to the soul.

Chris Tomlin

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. A teacher who is only interested in great talents is like a man who only seeks the company of rich people.

Carl Flesch

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

Charles Dickens

#18. No one is truly dead until they are no longer loved.

Theophile Gautier

#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. Cos people think I'm on drugs and I'm not. I'm really quite ... Just a bit of coffee. When I take drugs I start going, Oh, would you like insurance?

Eddie Izzard

#21. Men are nicotine soaked, beer besmirched, whiskey greased, red-eyed devils.

Carrie Nation

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

Charles Dickens