Quotes from book

Dombey and Son

“…vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!”

“Time was," he said, "when it was well to watch even your rising little star, and know in what quarter there were clouds, to shadow you if needful. But a planet has arisen, and you are lost in its light.”

“The bearings of this observation lays in the application on it.”

“I want to know what it says," he answered, looking steadily in her face. "The sea Floy, what is it that it keeps on saying?”

“He’s tough, ma’am,—tough is J. B.; tough and devilish sly.”

“If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you'd form some idea of what unrequited affection is.”

“Cows are my passion.”