The Artful Dodger Quotes

You want to be a surgeon? Then expect nothing in return.[to Belle]

There are times in this life when we have to face the loss of something so precious, it makes the heart clench just to think of it. Love’s frail, it don’t last. Especially not in our world. That’s what gives it its pain. And it’s also what gives it its shine because in the flickering of a glim, it’s gone.[to Jack]

My word is my bond.[Norbert Fagin]Your word and your bond are two very different islands with a vast ocean in between.[Jack Dawkins]

You say our differences will divide us, but they’re not. They’re what binds us. Your prudence and my risk-taking. Your knowledge and my quick hands. Apart, we’re good, but together we are brilliant.[to Belle]

Don’t invite me to any more stupid dinner parties. Your lot will never accept me.[Jack Dawkins]Why would you want them to accept you? You have no idea how boring we all are.[Belle Fox]

When a doctor becomes a criminal, all hell breaks loose.

We don’t pay for cadavers. We just borrow them.[to Belle]

We can’t always beat the Reaper. But if we lose our confidence, then we just surrender before we even start.[to Belle]

A quiet word?[Lucien Gaines]Trouble with the prostate?[Jack Dawkins]

There are more things to medicine than death. There is life, and hope.

The biggest risk to any surgeon is the addiction to feeling like God. You are gambling against death with only your wit for ante, and that is bloody exhilarating. But the risk is not yours. There is a person beneath your hands. And the moment the cutter forgets that, and gives into his ego, then the patient is lost. A surgeon is lost.[to Belle]

Someone’ll sweep you off your feet when you least expect it in the most inconvenient of moments.[to Fanny]