"Nicholas Nickleby" Quotes

Charles Dickens, author of several masterpieces, gained immense popularity for his novel, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. The plot revolves around the life of young Nicholas, who has to support his sister and widowed mother. The story is widely acclaimed as a comedy in a contemporary setting. Here are some memorable Nicholas Nickleby quotes.

• The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it.
  
  
• The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
  
  
• Love... is very materially assisted by a warm and active imagination: which has a long memory, and will thrive, for a considerable time, on very slight and sparing food.
  
  
• It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
  
  
• Young men not being as a class remarkable for modesty or self-denial, especially when there is a lady in the case, when, if they colour at all, it is rather their practice to colour the story, and not themselves.
  
  
• Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries.
  
  
• Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues -- faith and hope.
  
  
• He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.
  
  
• Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased.
  
  
• That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity’s small change in general society.
  
  
• Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.
  
  
• Memory, however sad, is the best and purest link between this world and a better.