Best quotes from David Copperfield

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

Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Trifles make the sum of life.

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.

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

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

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