Best quotes from Oliver Twist

Although Oliver had been brought up by philosophers, he was not theoretically acquainted with the beautiful axiom that self-preservation is the first law of nature.

We need be careful how we deal with those about us, when every death carries to some small circle of survivors, thoughts of so much omitted, and so little done.

I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil.

There was the little church, in the morning, with the green leaves fluttering at the windows: the birds singing without: filling the homely building with its fragrance.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys, and beef-faced boys.

To do a great right, you may do a little wrong; and you may take any means which the end to be attained will justify.

Upon this, the parish authorities magnanimously and humanely resolved, that Oliver should be farmed.

There is no remorse so deep as that which is unavailing; if we would be spared its tortures, let us remember this, in time.