"The Pickwick Papers" Quotes

Benevolence and kindness rank above politics.

It's very pleasant, dining with a bachelor

The mind recovers itself in solitude and finds health.

It is often a much simpler matter to decide on what we should do than to find the power to do it.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

There are very few moments in a man’s existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat.

There’s no such thing as death, it’s merely one long sleep.

I would rather not pursue the subject. It is a very painful one to me, though of course I know that it is a maxim that no man should ever acknowledge that he has been jilted by a woman, but men often know very little about what they should do, and still less about what they should say.

What pitchers are like nowadays! How fast they send the ball in! And then the batters have their attitudes - one holds his bat high, another low, another straight before him - each according to his fancy. Why don't they all hold it the same way? - that would make it mess agreeable for the pitcher.

Alec hoped nothing from the men of the world and their works, from education, from government, from the opposition, from the reforming crew, from anything but wild cattle and waste land; a little money, a gun, a horse, a good dog, a volume or two of Shakeapeare, and a fellow-room mate who could talk Shakespeare - this was his outlook on life.