"Nicholas Nickleby" Quotes
A young man's struggle against adversity and exploitation as he seeks to protect his family and find his place in the world.
classics | 817 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
It is a matter of taste, not of truth.
Life is a matter of putting up with little things.
The best of us are but poor scholars in the art of concealing our feelings.
We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.
There is a kind of gingerliness in people that leads to a great deal of unhappiness.
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
No one would have such a hard heart as to condemn a man to death on the evidence of a notorious liar.
Tears are sometimes as weighty as words.
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
A poor author's pen is the spade of a literary agriculturist, and with it he labours to bring to light the precious products of his fertile brain.
