Great Quotes

“Yet it is an indubitable fact, within the cognizance of this history, that five minutes after he (Bounderby) had left the house in the self same hat, the same descendant of the Scadgers and connexion by matrimony of the Powlers, shook her right hand mitten at his portrait, made a contemptuous grimace at that work of art, and said ‘Serve you right, you Noodle, and I am glad of it!’” (191).

 

“Not until the light porter announced that her nocturnal sweetbread was ready, did Mrs.Sparsit arouse herself from her reverie…’O, you Fool!’ said Mrs. Sparsit, when she was alone at her supper. Whom she meant, she did not say; but she could scarcely have meant the sweetbread” (123). 

“’Put that clock aboard a ship an pack it off to Norfolk Island, an the time will go on just the same. So ‘tis wi’ Slackbridge every bit’” (149).

 

“’You see this place; you know what sort of a place it is; you are aware that there’s not a completer place of its size in this kingdom or elsewhere- I don’t care where- and here, got into the middle of it, like a maggot into a nut, is Josiah Bounderby’” (165).