Dickens Quotes

118 Dickens quotes by 95 unique authors

A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, 'Uncle Tom's… — Tony Kushner
My favourite authors include Trollope and Dickens. — Kevin McCloud
There's always a host of voices you're inspired by. I love Don DeLillo, and I love Isaac Bashevis Singer, and I love Beckett, and I… — Dylan Moran
I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare. — Ben Okri
Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing. — George Orwell
I don't read many business books. I read good fiction. Business is about people, so my favorite business books are anything by Dickens. — Tom Peters
When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of… — Jodi Picoult
Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page. — Terry Pratchett
I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces. — Anne Rice
Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough. — Anne Rice
The Five Points was the toughest street corner in the world. That's how it was known. In fact, Charles Dickens visited it in the 1850s… — Martin Scorsese
I wrote the Dickens book because I loved Dickens, not because I felt a kinship with him, but after writing the book it seemed to… — Jane Smiley
Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened in medieval times and exploited during the Industrial Revolution. Was… — Robert Winston
'Great Expectations' has been described as 'Dickens's harshest indictment of society.' Which it is. After all, it's about money. About not having enough money; about… — Felix Dennis
I don't know if it's the sunshine, or the fact that I actually have a job, but I do like L.A. a lot. In New… — Rich Sommer
We Woosters freeze like the dickens when we seek sympathy and meet with cold reserve. "Nothing further Jeeves", I said with quiet dignity. — P.G. Wodehouse
She read Dickens in the same spirit she would have eloped with him. — Eudora Welty
In fact I don't think of literature, or music, or any art form as having a nationality. Where you're born is simply an accident of… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
She had lolled about for three years at Girton with the kind of books she could equally have read at home--Jane Austen, Dickens, Conrad, all… — Ian Mcewan
All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading. — Anna Quindlen
My great-aunt. . . . said nobody under 18 had any business reading Dickens. . . . She was right. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Old Flossie settle down on the other side of What-the-Dickens and dragged some handiwork out of a sack. She armed herself with two thorns shaped… — Gregory Maguire
I am not unique in my elegiac sadness at watching reading die, in the era that celebrates Stephen King and J.K. Rowling rather than Charles… — Harold Bloom
Where would David Copperfield be if Dickens had gone to writing classes? Probably about seventy minor characters short, is where. (Did you know that Dickens… — Nick Hornby
I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever occurred to any… — Mordecai Richler

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