Available Quote by Charles Dickens

Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had…

— Samuel Johnson

“He seemed to be doing his best to marry into a family of pronounced loonies, and how the deuce he thought he was going…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“The Baudelaire children wolfed down the peach, and under normal circumstances, it would not have been polite to eat something so quickly and so…

— Lemony Snicket

“For answer Mr Flay shot his head forward out of his collar and croaked, ‘Silence! you kitchen thing. Hold your tongue you greasy fork.”

— Mervyn Peake

William Tell's son, Telly, who said as his father was pointing the bow and arrow at the apple on his head, There's gotta be…

— Red Buttons

“The Dead Father was slaying, in a grove of music and musicians. First he slew a harpist and then a performer upon the serpent…

— Donald Barthelme

“He would flay the fox, say the ape's paternoster, return to his sheep, and turn the hogs to the hay. He would beat the…

— François Rabelais

“You said there's been another murder?" "At the Dwarf Bread Museum. Someone killed Mr. Hopkinson with his own bread!" "Made him eat it?" "Hit…

— Terry Pratchett

“He toasted his bacon on a fork and caught the drops of fat on his bread; then he put the rasher on his thick…

— D.H. Lawrence

“What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Haydock. "Well, Eve -- it will be awkward if I do…

— Dorothy L. Sayers