David Copperfield

I try to help people realize their dreams by using magic to tell stories that educate, move, and inspire.

— David Copperfield

Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.

— David Copperfield

Marriage is like a formality for me.

— David Copperfield

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

— David Copperfield

You'll find us rough, sir, but you'll find us ready.

— David Copperfield

I feel it more than other people.

— David Copperfield

I am a lone lorn creetur... and everythink goes contrairy with me.

— David Copperfield

I'd better go into the house, and die and be a riddance!

— David Copperfield

Ye-es. Barkis is willin'.

— David Copperfield

I live on broken wittles - and I sleep on the coals.

— David Copperfield

[A] loving heart was better and stronger than wisdom...

— David Copperfield

David," said Mr. Murdstone, "to the young this is a world for action; not for moping and droning in.

— David Copperfield

When I lived at home with papa and mama, I really should have hardly understood what the word meant, in the sense in which I now employ it, but experientia does it, — as papa used to say.

— David Copperfield

My other piece of advice, Copperfield," said Mr. Micawber, "you know. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the god of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and — and in short you are for ever floored. As I am!

— David Copperfield

It's a mad world. Mad as Bedlam, boy!

— David Copperfield

Because, if it was so long ago, how could the people about him have made that mistake of putting some of the trouble out of his head, after it was taken off, into mine?

— David Copperfield

It's very strange," said Mr. Dick ... "that I never can get that quite right; I never can make that perfectly clear.

— David Copperfield

Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.

— David Copperfield

I am well aware that I am the umblest person going... My mother is likewise a very umble person. We live in a numble abode, Master Copperfield, but have much to be thankful for.

— David Copperfield

There ain't no sort of orse that I ain't bred, and no sort of dorg. Orses and dorgs is some men's fancy. They're wittles and drink to me - lodging, wife, and children - reading, writing, and Arithmetic - snuff, tobacker, and sleep.

— David Copperfield

I only ask for information.

— David Copperfield

It was as true," said Mr. Barkis, "as turnips is. It was as true," said Mr. Barkis, nodding his nightcap, which was his only means of emphasis, "as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them.

— David Copperfield

I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the most of it.

— David Copperfield

What a world of gammon and spinach it is, though, ain't it!

— David Copperfield

He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own.

— David Copperfield

Other things are all very well in their way, but give me Blood!

— David Copperfield

I assure you she's the dearest girl!

— David Copperfield

Accidents will occur in the best regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances the—a—I would say, in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.

— David Copperfield

Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race!

— David Copperfield

A long pull, and a strong pull, and a pull altogether, my hearties, hurrah!

— David Copperfield

I ate umble pie with an appetite.

— David Copperfield

I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time.

— David Copperfield

My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.

— David Copperfield

Britannia, that unfortunate female, is always before me, like a trussed fowl: skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

— David Copperfield

It’s only my child-wife!

— David Copperfield

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

— David Copperfield

A man must take the fat with the lean.

— David Copperfield

[T]rifles make the sum of life.

— David Copperfield

The labour is so pleasant,"said Agnes,"that it is scarcely grateful in me to call it by that name.

— David Copperfield