"He'd make a lovely corpse. " [Mrs. Gamp]
- from Martin Chuzzlewit

"He had but one eye, andthe popular prejudice runs in favour of two. " [Mr. Squeers]
- from Nicholas Nickleby

"Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman. " [Rigaud]
- from Little Dorrit

"I wants to make your flesh creep. " [Fat Boy]
- from Pickwick Papers

"Hard " replied the Dodger. "As nails " added Charlie Bates.
- from Oliver Twist

"A smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing. " [Minerva House]
- from Sketches by Boz

"Dumb as a drum with a hole in it. " [Sam Weller]
- from Pickwick Papers

"Now, what I want is, Facts...Facts alone are wanted in life. " [Mr. Gradgrind.]
- from Hard Times

"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. " [Mr. Micawber]
- from David Copperfield

"It's of no consequence. " [Mr. Toots]
- from Dombey and Sons

"United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin and Crumpet aking and Punctual Delivery Company "
- from Nicholas Nickleby

"Did you ever taste beer? " "I had a sip of it once ", said the small servant. "Here's a state of things! " cried Mr. Swiveller ... "She never tasted it - it can't be tasted in a sip! "
- from The Old Curiosity Shop