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| Nicholas Nickleby Quotes | No. | Quotation | Last Name | First Name | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature. | Dickens | Charles | Nicholas Nickleby |
| 2 | Each baby born into the world is a finer one than the last. | Dickens | Charles | Nicholas Nickleby |
| 3 | Heaven above was blue, and earth beneath was green; the river glistened like a path of diamonds in the sun; the birds poured forth their songs from the shady trees; the lark soared high above the waving corn; and the deep buzz of insects filled the air. | Dickens | Charles | Nicholas Nickleby |
| 4 | . . . The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it. | Dickens | Charles | Nicholas Nickleby |
| 5 | The expression of a man's face is commonly a help to his thoughts, or glossary on his speech; but the countenance of Newman Noggs, in his ordinary moods, was a problem which no stretch of ingenuity could solve. | Dickens | Charles | Nicholas Nickleby |
| 6 | He wore a sprinkling of powder upon his head, as if to make himself look benevolent; but if that were his purpose, he would perhaps have done better to powder his countenance also, for there was something in its very wrinkles, and in his cold restless eye | Dickens | Charles | Nicholas Nickleby |
| 7 | . . . for gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal . . . | Dickens | Charles | Nicholas Nickleby |
| 8 | Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world. | Dickens | Charles | Nicholas Nickleby |
| 9 | Wretch, rejoined Nicholas, fiercely, touch him at your peril! I will not stand by, and see it done. My blood is up, and I have the strength of ten such men as you. Look to yourself, for by Heaven I will not spare you, if you drive me on! | Dickens | Charles | Nicholas Nickleby |
| 10 | Newman cast a despairing glance at his small store of fuel, but, not having the courage to say no--a word which in all his life he never had said at the right time, either to himself or anyone else--gave way to the proposed arrangement. | Dickens | Charles | Nicholas Nickleby |
| 38 quotes from Nicholas Nickleby |

