“I’d lay down my life for her – Mas’r Davy – Oh! most content and cheerful! She’s more to me – gent’lmen – than – she’s all to me that ever I can want, and more than ever I – than ever I could say. I – I love her true. There ain’t a gent’lman in all the land – nor yet sailing upon all the sea – that can love his lady more than I love her.” ~ 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.
Skewered Through and Through
Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape. ~ David Copperfield
The rooks were sailing about
The rooks were sailing about the cathedral towers; and the towers themselves, overlooking many a long unaltered mile of the rich country and its pleasant streams, were cutting the bright morning air, as if there were no such thing as change on earth. Yet the bells, when they sounded, told me sorrowfully of change in everything; told me of their own age, and my pretty Dora’s youth; and of the many, never old, who had lived and loved and died, while the reverberations of the bells had hummed through the rusty armour of the Black Prince hanging up within, and, motes upon the deep of Time, had lost themselves in air, as circles do in water. ~ David Copperfield
“That sort of people.
“That sort of people. – Are they really animals and clods, and beings of another order? I want to know SO much.” ~ David Copperfield
Accidents will occur in the
“Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families.” ~ David Copperfield
“Well,” said my aunt, “this
“Well,” said my aunt, “this is his boy – his son. He would be as like his father as it’s possible to be, if he was not so like his mother, too.” ~ David Copperfield
I know enough of the
I know enough of the world now, to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything. ~ David Copperfield
“I went away, dear Agnes,
“I went away, dear Agnes, loving you. I stayed away, loving you. I returned home, loving you!” ~ David Copperfield
“What such people miscall their
“What such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.” ~ David Copperfield
I don’t remember who was
I don’t remember who was there, except Dora. I have not the least idea what we had for dinner, besides Dora. My impression is, that I dined off Dora, entirely, and sent away half-a-dozen plates untouched. I sat next to her. I talked to her. She had the most delightful little voice, the gayest little laugh, the pleasantest and most fascinating little ways, that ever led a lost youth into hopeless slavery. She was rather diminutive altogether. So much the more precious, I thought. ~ David Copperfield
