Dickens Quotes

118 quotes by 95 authors

Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form. — Margaret Atwood
Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens. — Peter Ackroyd
We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off. — Alan Bennett
One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded. — Danny Boyle
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. — Michael Caine
Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in… — Maya Angelou
I cannot tell what the dickens his name is. — William Shakespeare
I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene. — David McCullough
I've been in the entertainment industry since I was six-years-old ... As Charles Dickens says, 'It's been the best of times, the worst of times.'… — Michael Jackson
Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much betterÂ than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind. — Bob Dylan
Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager,… — John Berger
I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive. — Donna Tartt
Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today. Let me repeat that: Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English… — Michael Swanwick
Born Losers is a beautiful piece of writing. Scott Sandage is history's Dickens; his bleak house, the late nineteenth century world of almost anonymous American… — William S. McFeely
When I was 14 or 15, our teacher introduced us to Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' It was just for entertainment - we read… — Dermot Healy
Movement was the essence of Manhattan. It had always been so, and now its sense of flow, energy, openness, elasticity as Charles Dickens had called… — Jan Morris
I would happily storm hell in the company of these troops ... how strongly they have demonstrated to the world that free men and women… — James Mattis
If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and… — Dustin Hoffman
Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers. — Lloyd Alexander
Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness of… — Ben Okri

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