Lizzie Hexam very softly raised the weather-stained grey head, and lifted her as high as Heaven. ~ Our Mutual Friend
Our Mutual Friend Quotes
Our Mutual Friend was the last novel Charles Dickens completed before he died. We hope you enjoy this collection of 51 quotes from Our Mutual Friend.
Love is in all things
Love is in all things a most wonderful teacher. ~ Our Mutual Friend
“A heart well worth winning,
“A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.” ~ Our Mutual Friend
“My daughter, there are times
“My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic bravery is flight.” ~ Our Mutual Friend
“I know quite enough of
“I know quite enough of myself,” said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, “and I don’t improve upon acquaintance.” ~ Our Mutual Friend
Now, Bella suspected by this
Now, Bella suspected by this time that Mr. Rokesmith admired her. Whether the knowledge (for it was rather that than suspicion) caused her to incline to him a little more, or a little less, than she had done at first; whether it rendered her eager to find out more about him, because she sought to establish reason for her distrust, or because she sought to free him from it; was as yet dark to her own heart. But at most times he occupied a great amount of her attention. ~ Our Mutual Friend
“My good fellow,” retorted Mr.
“My good fellow,” retorted Mr. Boffin, “you have my word; and how you can have that, without my honour too, I don’t know. I’ve sorted a lot of dust in my time, but I never knew the two things go into separate heaps.” ~ Our Mutual Friend
Idiots Talk of Energy
“Then idiots talk,” said Eugene, leaning back, folding his arms, smoking with his eyes shut, and speaking slightly through his nose, “of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy.” ~ Our Mutual Friend
“Don’t go saying I never
“Don’t go saying I never knew a mother,” interposed the boy, “for I knew a little sister that was sister and mother both.” ~ Our Mutual Friend
Well observed R. Wilfer, cheerfully,
“Well!” observed R. Wilfer, cheerfully, “money and goods are certainly the best of references.” ~ Our Mutual Friend
