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1skittles
Jan 18, 2012, 7:09 pm

"Please, sir, I want some more."

Oliver Twist, of course...

2Siliverien
Jan 27, 2012, 1:45 pm

"You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!"

~ A Christmas Carol

3laytonwoman3rd
Fév 3, 2012, 1:44 pm

Not so much a quote, as a vocabulary word that really ought to be much more widely used:

"Podsnappery" : insular complacency and blinkered self-satisfaction; the
behaviour or outlook characteristic of Dickens's Mr Podsnap in Our Mutual Friend.

4Conachair
Modifié : Fév 5, 2012, 4:24 pm

I just almost choked because I had to laugh at a quote while lying on my back.

"Well, I was about to flap my arms and fly to the moon, but if you want me to wait-" from Faith of the Fallen

5staffordcastle
Fév 5, 2012, 5:21 pm

>3 laytonwoman3rd: laytonwoman3rd

I just read that chapter! Poor Georgiana!

6laytonwoman3rd
Fév 5, 2012, 6:48 pm

Yes...I'm well into Book 2 now, and waiting for that family to reappear. Surely we aren't through with them!

7staffordcastle
Fév 7, 2012, 4:21 pm

Interesting to note that the Born Today module on my home page does not mention Mr. Dickens!

8jbd1
Modifié : Fév 7, 2012, 4:23 pm

>7 staffordcastle: - Yes {grumble grumble} - it's set to start picking up authors born after a certain date (1850, maybe?). Bleh.

9staffordcastle
Fév 7, 2012, 4:30 pm

What a very odd choice for a cutoff! Jane Austen, the Brontes, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Rabelais, etc., etc.,!

10jbd1
Fév 7, 2012, 4:36 pm

Yeah. Remind me to argue it again when I get home :-)