- Fagin: Do you know what I consider the greatest sin in the world, my dear? Ingratitude. That's what you're guilty of. Ingratitude.
- Workhouse Boy: [Woken by boy pacing back an forth] Tom, give it a rest will ya? We're trying to sleep.
- Hungry Boy: Can't sleep. Too hungry.
- Workhouse Boy: We're all hungry.
- Hungry Boy: Yeah, but I'm scared.
- Workhouse Boy: Scared? Of What?
- Hungry Boy: I'm so hungry I'm scared I might eat the boy that sleeps next to me.
- Fagin: [gazing upon Oliver as he sleeps] Look at him. What a shame it is. With his face he could pick old ladies' pockets in church. His face could be a fortune to us.
- Fagin: You're like yourself tonight, Bill.
- [puts his hand on Bill's shoulder]
- Fagin: Quite like yourself.
- Bill Sykes: Well I don't feel like myself when you lay that wicked old claw on my shoulder, so take it away!
- Artful Dodger: You know what a prig is, don'tcha?
- Oliver Twist: I think I do. It's a - thief. You're one, are you not?
- Artful Dodger: I am. So's Charley. So's Bet. So we all are, down to the dog. And he's the downiest one of the lot.
- Charley Bates: And the least given to peaching.
- Mrs. Sowerberry: Is the boy mad?
- Mr. Bumble: Tis not madness, Ma'am, it's meat
- Mrs. Sowerberry: Meat?
- Mr. Bumble: Meat, ma'am, meat! If you kept the boy on gruel this would have never have happened.
- Mrs. Sowerberry: Oh my, this is what comes of being liberal.
- Fagin: A terrible thing, Oliver... hangin'. The dawn... the noose, the gallows, the drop! You don't even have to be guilty, they'll hang you for anything these days, that's because they're so very fond of hangin'!
- Nicky: There's two of yer! Who's he?
- Artful Dodger: New pal.
- Nicky: Where's he from?
- Artful Dodger: Greenland.
- Artful Dodger: I suppose you've been walkin so long on the beak's order?
- Oliver Twist: What's that?
- Artful Dodger: Don't you know what a beak is?
- Oliver Twist: It's a bird's mouth isn't it?
- Artful Dodger: [laughs] You are green. A beak's a magistrate, where have you been all your life?
- Nancy: But tonight he's a thief, and a liar, and all that's bad. Ain't that enough for the old wretch, without blows?
- Bill Sykes: [under his breath, about Nancy] There ain't a stauncher-hearted gal going, or I'd have cut her throat three months ago.
- Fagin: [watching Dodger and Nancy play cards] Lovely life isn't it my dear?
- Oliver Twist: Yes, sir
- Bet: Sir? You know who you're talking to, do ya?
- Charley Bates: [laughs]
- Mr. Gamfield - the Chimney Sweep: [to his donkey after it runs off] When I says whoa, it means whoa!
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