“Oh Sairey, Sairey, little do we know wot lays afore us!” ~ Martin Chuzzlewit
Martin Chuzzlewit Quotes
Martin Chuzzlewit was Dickens’s sixth novel. It as first published in installments that ran from 1843 to 1844. We hope you enjoy this collection of 35 quotes from Martin Chuzzlewit.
But charity begins at home,
But charity begins at home, and justice begins next door. ~ Martin Chuzzlewit
All the knives and forks
All the knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his utmost in self-defence, as if a famine were expected to set in before breakfast time to-morrow morning, and it had become high time to assert the first law of nature. ~ Martin Chuzzlewit
In this way they went
In this way they went on, and on, and on–in the language of the story-books–until at last the village lights appeared before them, and the church spire cast a long reflection on the graveyard grass; as if it were a dial (alas, the truest in the world!) marking, whatever light shone out of Heaven, the flight of days and weeks and years, by some new shadow on that solemn ground. ~ Martin Chuzzlewit
It Was One of Those
It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows listening for the thunder which they know will shortly break; when they recall dismal tales of hurricanes and earthquakes; and of lonely travellers on open plains, and lonely ships at sea, struck by lightning. ~ Martin Chuzzlewit
