Charles Quote by Anthony Horowitz

What, in the name of common-sense, had I to do with any better society than I had always lived in?

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.

— Alan Bennett

We are herding the young in that direction so that they are not sitting still and contemplating, Goddamn it, a page of exquisite prose…

— Frederick Busch

In his life, Charles Dickens was like the rest of us, but maybe more so: another poor and wonderful soul attempting to deal with…

— Fred Kaplan

“I recently discovered that a friend who was re-reading Bleak House had done no other Dickens apart from Barnaby Ridge. That's just weird. I…

— Nick Hornby

There's such a wealth of literature from the 18th century and 19th century, George Eliot... Jane Austen... that's all about a genteel high society,…

— Steven Knight

Dickens didn't have access to any other epistemologies other than those prevailing in Britain. But a novelist today cannot plausibly claim ignorance of his…

— Pankaj Mishra

I had a kind of Dickensian childhood.

— Shaun Cassidy

A complex society is not necessarily more advanced than a simple one; it has just adapted to conditions in a more complicated way.

— Peter Farb

We, as a society, have become very fixed in our ideas of how things were, how they are, and how they should be.

— Brandon Victor Dixon

I didn't want to be stuck in Dickens period dramas because then I would never know if I was any good.

— Harry Lloyd

Victorian society was homogeneous without being homogenized. It was, to paraphrase the epigram about Parliament, a society of extreme eccentrics who agreed so well…

— Kenneth Rexroth