“Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race!” ~ David Copperfield
David Copperfield Quotes
In the preface to the 1867 edition of David Copperfield, Dickens wrote, “like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is David Copperfield.” We hope you enjoy this collection of 74 quotes from David Copperfield.
I Had Considered How the Things That Never Happen
I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished. ~ David Copperfield
I remembered her, from that
I remembered her, from that instant, only as the young mother of my earliest impressions, who had been used to wind her bright curls round and round her finger, and to dance with me at twilight in the parlour. . . . It may be curious, but it is true. In her death she winged her way back to her calm untroubled youth, and cancelled all the rest. ~ David Copperfield
“There can be no disparity
“There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.” ~ David Copperfield
What is natural in me,
What is natural in me, is natural in many other men, I infer, and so I am not afraid to write that I never had loved Steerforth better than when the ties that bound me to him were broken. In the keen distress of the discovery of his unworthiness, I thought more of all that was brilliant in him, I softened more towards all that was good in him, I did more justice to the qualities that might have made him a man of a noble nature and a great name, than ever I had done in the height of my devotion to him. ~ David Copperfield
“Oh!” said my aunt, “I
“Oh!” said my aunt, “I was not aware at first to whom I had the pleasure of objecting.” ~ David Copperfield
“Well, well!” said my aunt.
“Well, well!” said my aunt. “I only ask. I don’t depreciate her. Poor little couple! And so you think you were formed for one another, and are to go through a party-supper-table kind of life, like two pretty pieces of confectionery, do you, Trot?” ~ David Copperfield
“As I think I told
“As I think I told you once before,” said I, “it is you who have been, in your greed and cunning, against all the world. It may be profitable to you to reflect, in future, that there never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death.” ~ David Copperfield
“Barkis is willin’.”
“Barkis is willin’.” ~ David Copperfield
My meaning simply is, that
My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest. ~ David Copperfield
