David Copperfield (1935)

Yorke Sherwood: Mr. Quinion

Quotes 

• David Copperfield as a child : Oh thank you, Mr. Micawber, you're so kind to me.

  Mr. Micawber : Not at all; and now, since this is a red-letter day, in that I am hourly expecting something extarordinary to turn up, let us return and discover what culinary triumphs Mrs. Micawber has prepared for us.

  David Copperfield as a child : Ooh, how wonderful !

  Mr. Micawber : Imperative, my dear Copperfield, imperative; for as I have frequently had occasion to observe: 'When the stomach is empty, the spirits are low.'

  [David and Mr. Micawber go outside to the streets] 

  Mr. Micawber : I predict, my dear Copperfield, that we can confidently depend on Mrs. Micawber assembling a tureen of cock-a-leekie soup, veal cutlet - breaded, and a jug of egg-hot.

  David Copperfield as a child : And a pudding?

  Mr. Micawber : A pudding, a suet pudding, the very thing.

  Sheriff's Man : Wilkins Micawber?

  Mr. Micawber : You are under a misapprehension, my good fellow, I...

  Mr. Quinion : Oh no you don't, you're Micawber, all right. You owe me £2.10 for the last year. Officer, do your duty.

  Sheriff's Man : Wilkins Micawber, you're under arrest;

  Mr. Micawber : Upon what authority do you take this unwarrantable procedure?

  Sheriff's Man : Court order for debt; I'm the assistant officer of the sheriff of Middlesex. Now are you coming quietly?

  Mr. Micawber : Copperfield, you perceive before you the shattered fragment of a temple once called Man. The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered; the god of day goes down upon the dreary scene. In short, I am forever flawed.