Top Quotes from Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist

Please, sir, I want some more.

The law is a ass, a idiot.

Do you think I didn’t know that you had a wife?

What a dreadful noise! I wish myself dead!

I don’t care, I don’t care! I know I’m right!

Oh, Mr. Bumble, he says he went to sleep for the rest of the time, sir.

I hope she didn’t die of a broken heart.

Mind you don’t poison me.

Don’t mind him. He picks up a little every day.

What an excellent boy you are!

Ah! It’s your bed, is it?

I have been where he is, and I have longed to die.

Now, if you please, you can hear me. If you please.

What can the boy mean?

Hard work, Sam, and sorrow, a’most broke my heart, they did.

You may depend upon it that these are real Frenchmen.

He had a fever once, though, and lost his appetite.

And what monstrous things people have been found out in, haven’t they?

Young people, Oliver, are very knowing nowadays in all matters of spirits.

You don’t mean that you think…that husband of mine.

If it be painful to him, she thought, that I should love her – God help him!

If he had read right through the first time, he’d have been able to make you out, as well as I can.

Shut up, you old fool! You knew she was ill, and you didn’t tell me.

I think you might have come back for that.

What an impudent slut!

We must know who is plotting to escape, and where they are going.

Top Quotes from Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist part 2

I’ve just got another story, which you might like better than the last.

She gives ’em a bad name to counteract the bad name that Mr. Bumble gives ’em.

It’s pretty plain to me the whole mystery hangs together.

A pleasant night, sir, but cool for the time of year, said Fagin, rubbing his hands.

What business is it of yours? demanded Mrs. Bumble sternly.

We must investigate this murder, boys. We must find the murderer.

There is no getting at the facts of the case, and no hope of any.

We are all bound to do what we can to assist poor Northumberland House.

Here, Charlotte, what’s to be told to ’em about the mother directly she comes in?

Oliver’s gone mad! Charley, send Oliver with them!

Tell him I’ll be glad to see him to-morrow morning, too, said Mr. Gamfield.

What business have you in the office, of ours?

Mr. Sikes, whose conscience was not a powerful one, was rather frightened by this threat.

I have saved you from ruin, and, if I don’t save you from death, I shall have murdered you.

Don’t go to lame-duck be it ever so much this one pair of legs don’t leave me.

As soon as he’s well enough, a day or two will be sufficient.

Merely a dodger! Oh, your mother had need to be a good one.

Come, that’s too much, you know, said Mr. Sowerberry.

I’m sure we have all settled that, and there’s no mistake about it at all.