The Pickwick Papers Quotes

#1. 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

#2. All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had learned the obligations to speak the truth. Not one of them makes it the duty of its god to be truthful and understandable in his communications.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#3. The kind of value system prevailing in a country determines the country's reaction and view on corruption.

Sunday Adelaja

#4. It is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are-until the poem-nameless and formless, about to be birthed, but already felt.

Audre Lorde

#5. I do not care much about the mysteries of the universe, unless they come to me in words, or in music maybe, or in a set of colours, and then I entertain them merely for their beauty and only briefly.

Colm Toibin

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

Aporva Kala

#7. You made a mistake, and sadly time travel has not yet been invented, so why are you still thinking about it?

Dave Guerrero

#8. Come on, don't you ever stop and smell the coffee?

Justina Chen

#9. Bunter!"
"Yes, my lord."
"Her Grace tells me that a respectable Battersea architect has discovered a dead man in his bath."
"Indeed, my lord? That's very gratifying."
"Very, Bunter. Your choice of words is unerring. I wish Eton and Balliol had done as much for me ...

Dorothy L. Sayers

#10. If it had gone in, it would have been a goal.

Joe Royle

#11. Pregnancy turned me into such a pussy.

L.A. Casey

#12. Rumors spread fast, and they grow. I know. You want to either deny them, or disarm them

L.J.Smith

#13. 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

#14. Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.

E. O. Wilson

#15. Fashion is something that you can attach to yourself, put on, and through that interaction, the meaning of it is born.

Rei Kawakubo

#16. I'm married to a white man, and then my daughter came out looking like the whitest white child with blonde hair and blue eyes. And I'm like, 'Omigosh, now what am I going to do?' She has my mom's features and is lighter than my husband. And my boy is browner than I am. Brown eyes and really tan.

Karyn Parsons

#17. If you don't believe it you won't understand it.

Saint Augustine