Micawber sayings
Here are a few famous sayings by the character Wilkins Micawber from Charles Dickens' novel "David Copperfield":
1. "Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen [pounds] nineteen [shillings] and six [pence], result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery."
2. "Something will turn up."
3. "I never will desert Mr. Micawber."
4. "I am waiting for something to turn up."
5. "I am at present, my dear Copperfield, engaged in the sale of corn upon commission. It is not an avocation of a remunerative description—in other words, it does not pay—and some temporary embarrassments of a pecuniary nature have been the consequence. I am, however, delighted to add that I have now an immediate prospect of something turning up."
6. "I have no doubt I shall, please Heaven, begin to be more beforehand with the world, and to live in a perfectly new manner, if—in short, if anything turns up."
7. "I am not only willing to work, but anxious to do so. I am perfectly convinced that I could work at a good many trades, and I have a taste for several. But I don't know what to work at. I have been considering—what do you consider my true line, Copperfield? In short, what is it you have to sell? Is it a secret?"
8. "I am here, as a man of business, and as a man of business I am willing to do a great deal. Even to ride over to Drury Lane and look at the outside of the building, if you will permit me."
9. "I am not a man of great resources, but I am a man of business. I have a profession to which I am devoted, and I am willing to work hard at it. I am not a man of great means, but I am a man of business. I have a profession to which I am devoted, and I am willing to work hard at it."
10. "I am not a man of great resources, but I am a man of business. I have a profession to which I am devoted, and I am willing to work hard at it. I am not a man of great means, but I am a man of business. I have a profession to which I am devoted, and I am willing to work hard at it."
These sayings reflect Micawber's optimistic and hopeful outlook on life, despite facing financial difficulties.
Above is Micawber sayings.