My pictures of 'Oliver Twist' and 'A Boy in Flanders' are being used as school lessons. — Jackie Coogan Copy Share Image
Mark Twain didn't psychoanalyze Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer. Dickens didn't put Oliver Twist on the couch because he was hungry! Good… — Samuel Fuller Copy Share Image
“Mr. Charles Dickens was serializing his novel Oliver Twist; Mr. Draper had just taken the first photograph of the moon, freezing her… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Anger is a powerful force. It has started and ended wars, won the vote for marginalized groups like women and people of… — Lila Monroe Copy Share Image
“He knew he loved her in February: steam leaving the mug of coffee in her hands in thick curls; her hair a… — Lauren Gilley Copy Share Image
“•"Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine." -Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, Ch. 37” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
For me Oliver Twist is a political novel. It is a furious critique of the treatment of orphans and poor children who… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“This is Thackeray’s first full-length novel, which appeared in serialised instalments in Fraser’s Magazine between May 1839 and February 1840. Thackeray’s original… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
According to Dickens, the first rule of human nature is self-preservation and when I forgive him for writing a character as pathetic… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“To Frances Turnbull Nov. 9, 1938 p. 368 I've read the story carefully and, Frances, I'm afraid the price for doing professional… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I remember doing my first school play. We were doing 'Oliver Twist,' and I was cast as Oliver. It was the first… — Kaya Scodelario Copy Share Image
Can we reasonably expect happiness from an insatiable appetite which, no matter how it stuffs its belly, is still psychologically like Oliver… — Joy Davidman Copy Share Image
“Sean: …………And I'd ask you about war, you'd probably throw Shakespeare at me, right, "once more unto the breach dear friends." But… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
I'm doing something called 'Olivia Twisted,' that will start next year. There may be something in between, but right now, that's the… — Ashley Greene Copy Share Image
“and wherever they chose. The formidable Bill Sikes glowered and menaced and planned robberies. Oliver Twist—to the best of Dodger’s knowledge—was lying… — Peter David Copy Share Image
I think one of the few faults in Dickens is that mostly his lead characters are blanks - who is David Copperfield,… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
One evening at Chequers the film was Oliver Twist. Rufus, as usual, had the best seat in the house, on his master's… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I auditioned for a community theater-slash-professional production of Oliver Twist in Union City when I was 11 because my cousin wanted to… — Carlo Alban Copy Share Image
My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film. — Sally Phillips Copy Share Image
Although many of his other novels are brilliant there is a power in 'Oliver Twist' that I believe Dickens never managed to… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“For the next eight or ten months, Oliver was the victim of a systematic course of treachery and deception. He was brought… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In some ways we describe 'Boxtrolls' as 'Oliver Twist' if Terry Gilliam had made it. I think he's an extraordinary artist, and… — Travis Knight Copy Share Image
As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn't seen him on… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“I came to view the world as a word puzzle and, with no special aptitude I can name, fixed on the whys… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
