Our Mutual Friend Quotes

"Venerable parent promptly resorts to anathematization, and turns him out." (1.2.60)

"Now, you see […] a literary man—with a wooden leg—is liable to jealousy. I shall therefore cast about for comfortable ways and means of not calling up Wegg's jealousy." (5.15.46)

[Their] horses were new, their pictures were new, they themselves were new, they were as newly married as was lawfully compatible with their having a brand-new baby. (1.2.1)

"Before my eyes he grows suspicious, capricious, hard, tyrannical, unjust." (11.4.125)

With that flourish, and seeming to have talked himself rather more drunk and much more ferocious than he had begun by being, Mr. Riderhood took up his pint pot and swaggered off to the taproom. (2....

Mr. Podsnap was well to do, and stood very high in Mr. Podsnap's opinion. (4.11.1)

So, on their return, they met brisk Mrs. Milvey coming to seek them, with the agreeable intelligence that there was no fear for the village children, there being a Christian school in the village,...

"There you are, Charley, working your way, in secret from father, at the school, and you get prizes." (1.3.159)