Dickens Quotes
118 quotes by 95 authors
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Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
— Margaret Atwood
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Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens.
— Peter Ackroyd
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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
— Alan Bennett
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One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded.
— Danny Boyle
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
— Michael Caine
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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
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I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.
— William Shakespeare
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I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.
— David McCullough
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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
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Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind.
— Bob Dylan
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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
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I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.
— Donna Tartt
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
— Lloyd Alexander
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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
Who Wrote These Dickens Quotes
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