The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

‘Pickwick Papers’ (1837) ch. 2 (Jingle)
I wants to make your flesh creep.
‘Pickwick Papers’ (1837) ch. 8 (The Fat Boy)
‘It’s always best on these occasions to do what the mob do.’ ‘But suppose there are two mobs?’
suggested Mr Snodgrass. ‘Shout with the largest,’ replied Mr Pickwick.
‘Pickwick Papers’ (1837) ch. 13
‘Can I unmoved see thee dying
On a log,
Expiring frog!’
‘Pickwick Papers’ (1837) ch. 15 (Mrs Leo Hunter)
Battledore and shuttlecock’s a wery good game, vhen you an’t the shuttlecock and two lawyers
the battledores, in which case it gets too excitin’ to be pleasant.
‘Pickwick Papers’ (1837) ch. 20 (Mr Weller)
The wictim o’ connubiality, as Blue Beard’s domestic chaplain said, with a tear of pity, ven he
buried him.
‘Pickwick Papers’ (1837) ch. 20 (Mr Weller)
It’s a wery remarkable circumstance...that poverty and oysters always seem to go together.
‘Pickwick Papers’ (1837) ch. 22 (Sam Weller)
It’s over, and can’t be helped, and that’s one consolation, as they always says in Turkey, ven
they cuts the wrong man’s head off.
‘Pickwick Papers’ (1837) ch. 23 (Sam Weller)
Dumb as a drum vith a hole in it, sir.
‘Pickwick Papers’ (1837) ch. 25 (Sam Weller)
Ven you’re a married man, Samivel, you’ll understand a good many things as you don’t
understand now; but vether it’s worth while goin’ through so much to learn so little, as the
charity-boy said ven he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o’ taste.
‘Pickwick Papers’ (1837) ch. 27 (Mr Weller)
‘Eccentricities of genius, Sam,’ said Mr Pickwick.
‘Pickwick Papers’ (1837) ch.30
A double glass o’ the inwariable.
Mr Weller in ‘Pickwick Papers’ (1837) ch. 33
It’s my opinion, sir, that this meeting is drunk, sir!
‘Pickwick Papers’ (1837) ch. 33 (Mr Stiggins)
‘Do you spell it with a “ V” or a “ W”?’ inquired the judge. ‘That depends upon the taste and
fancy of the speller, my Lord,’ replied Sam [Weller].
‘Pickwick Papers’ (1837) ch. 34
‘Little to do, and plenty to get, I suppose?’ said Sergeant Buzfuz, with jocularity.
‘Oh, quite enough to get, sir, as the soldier said ven they ordered him three hundred and fifty
lashes,’ replied Sam.
‘You must not tell us what the soldier, or any other man, said, sir,’ interposed the judge; ‘it’s