The best David Copperfield quotes

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

My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. Collar him!

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

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.

Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.

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

"Oh!" said my aunt, "I was not aware at first to whom I had the pleasure of objecting."

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.

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.

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

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.

Trifles make the sum of life.

I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.