February (& Dickens) ReadaThing Quotes
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2Siliverien
"You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!"
~ A Christmas Carol
~ A Christmas Carol
3laytonwoman3rd
Not so much a quote, as a vocabulary word that really ought to be much more widely used:
"Podsnappery" : insular complacency and blinkered self-satisfaction; the
behaviour or outlook characteristic of Dickens's Mr Podsnap in Our Mutual Friend.
"Podsnappery" : insular complacency and blinkered self-satisfaction; the
behaviour or outlook characteristic of Dickens's Mr Podsnap in Our Mutual Friend.
4Conachair
I just almost choked because I had to laugh at a quote while lying on my back.
"Well, I was about to flap my arms and fly to the moon, but if you want me to wait-" from Faith of the Fallen
"Well, I was about to flap my arms and fly to the moon, but if you want me to wait-" from Faith of the Fallen
6laytonwoman3rd
Yes...I'm well into Book 2 now, and waiting for that family to reappear. Surely we aren't through with them!
7staffordcastle
Interesting to note that the Born Today module on my home page does not mention Mr. Dickens!
8jbd1
>7 staffordcastle: - Yes {grumble grumble} - it's set to start picking up authors born after a certain date (1850, maybe?). Bleh.
9staffordcastle
What a very odd choice for a cutoff! Jane Austen, the Brontes, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Rabelais, etc., etc.,!
