Dickens Quotes

118 Dickens quotes by 95 unique authors

The sad fact is that I love Dickens and Donne and Keats and Eliot and Forster and Conrad and Fitzgerald and Kafka and Wilde and… — David Nicholls
Whatâ€™s ready? Was Steinback ready? Hemingway? Shakespeare? Dickens? Jane Austen? They just did it, didnâ€™t they? — Danielle Steel
And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London. — Connie Willis
I promise to charm the dickens out of him,' said Will, sitting up and readjusting his crushed hat. 'I shall charm him with such force… — Cassandra Clare
Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of… — Charles Dickens
Most of us wait until we're in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we'd wake up… — Bill Vaughan
I think one of the few faults in Dickens is that mostly his lead characters are blanks - who is David Copperfield, who is Oliver… — Mark Gatiss
Something went wrong with my right arm. I no longer could throw hard, and it hurt like the dickens every time I threw. — Dazzy Vance
The gift of a writer as good as Dickens is not to explain everything; that way, the reader has, in terms of their imagination, somewhere… — Ronald Frame
The novel at its nineteenth-century pinnacle was a Judaized novel: George Eliot and Dickens and Tolstoy were all touched by the Jewish covenant: they wrote… — Cynthia Ozick
England opened up the world of literature for me. Not really having a world of my own, I made up for my disinheritance by absorbing… — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Charles Dickens left us fifteen novels, and in an ideal world, everyone would read all of them. — Robert Gottlieb
Dickens was born in 1812 and died in 1870, having produced fifteen novels, many of which can confidently be called great, as well as having… — Robert Gottlieb
The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the… — Robert Gottlieb
After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters. — Claire Tomalin
Dickens was a part of how the whole celebration of Christmas as we know it today emerged during the 19th century. — Claire Tomalin
Everyone finds their own version of Charles Dickens. The child-victim, the irrepressibly ambitious young man, the reporter, the demonic worker, the tireless walker. The radical,… — Claire Tomalin
Dickens belongs to the English people. — Claire Tomalin
The whole world knows Dickens, his London and his characters. — Claire Tomalin
As he approached his 28th birthday in February 1840, Dickens knew himself to be famous, successful and tired. He needed a rest, and he made… — Claire Tomalin

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