Nicholas Nickleby Quotes
Smike: Tomorrow where will you go?
Nicholas: Perhaps to Liverpool. I could find work on a ship. Do not be anxious. Before I do anything I will get you to your home. Where is it?
Smike: You are my home.
Nicholas: [affectionately] Smike.
Smike: Please may I go with you to sea? I will be your faithful, hardworking servant, I will. Promise I will. I want only to be near you.
Nicholas: Smike, the wall that separates us shall never be set by me. And I promise you, from this night forward, the world shall deal by you as it does by me.
Nicholas: Perhaps to Liverpool. I could find work on a ship. Do not be anxious. Before I do anything I will get you to your home. Where is it?
Smike: You are my home.
Nicholas: [affectionately] Smike.
Smike: Please may I go with you to sea? I will be your faithful, hardworking servant, I will. Promise I will. I want only to be near you.
Nicholas: Smike, the wall that separates us shall never be set by me. And I promise you, from this night forward, the world shall deal by you as it does by me.
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Lord Verisopht: If you had only told him who you were as he asked... I was wrong too, not to interfere. I did not sleep the night for thinking about it.
Ralph Nickleby: Any mistakes that were made were made by the boy. I am his uncle and even I can see that he is no good.
Lord Verisopht: He was defending the honor of his sister. That is the very definition of goodness. How can you not be proud of what he has done in defense of your own niece?
Ralph Nickleby: You will be glad, my lord, that I possess such an unsentimental view when I am managing your investments.
Lord Verisopht: Mr. Nickleby, I am no longer sure I can make an investment with you.
Ralph Nickleby: Because of my nephew?
Lord Verisopht: Because of your treatment of him. And his sister. When I think of her leaving the theatre that night, I feel sick to recall it. Surely there is another way for me to expand my fortune than to enrich the tormentor of these children.
Ralph Nickleby: Any mistakes that were made were made by the boy. I am his uncle and even I can see that he is no good.
Lord Verisopht: He was defending the honor of his sister. That is the very definition of goodness. How can you not be proud of what he has done in defense of your own niece?
Ralph Nickleby: You will be glad, my lord, that I possess such an unsentimental view when I am managing your investments.
Lord Verisopht: Mr. Nickleby, I am no longer sure I can make an investment with you.
Ralph Nickleby: Because of my nephew?
Lord Verisopht: Because of your treatment of him. And his sister. When I think of her leaving the theatre that night, I feel sick to recall it. Surely there is another way for me to expand my fortune than to enrich the tormentor of these children.
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Nicholas: My father told me that the great journey of my life would be to find such a person. But, I am nearly 20 years of age and I fear he may be wrong.
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Nicholas: Does your friend think I'm in love with her?
Tilda: Does she think so? Of course.
Nicholas: But I have made no such declaration.
Tilda: Your eyes said what your mouth could not.
Nicholas: Perhaps my mouth should say what my eyes have not. I have scarcely seen the lady three times but should I have seen her 30 or 30,000, it would be the same. I have not one thought, hope or wish connected with her unless it is part of the picture I keep in my mind of one day being able to turn my back upon this accursed place and never to think of it again with any feeling but loathing and disgust.
Tilda: Does she think so? Of course.
Nicholas: But I have made no such declaration.
Tilda: Your eyes said what your mouth could not.
Nicholas: Perhaps my mouth should say what my eyes have not. I have scarcely seen the lady three times but should I have seen her 30 or 30,000, it would be the same. I have not one thought, hope or wish connected with her unless it is part of the picture I keep in my mind of one day being able to turn my back upon this accursed place and never to think of it again with any feeling but loathing and disgust.
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Ralph Nickleby: I will put his ruin ahead of my own business! I will listen to every rumour, every rumble until I can strike him. And then I will strike him, until he can be struck no more.
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