Belongs Quote by Claire Tomalin Download Open image “Dickens belongs to the English people.” — Claire Tomalin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Belongs Dickens English English people People
“In his novels from beginning to end, Dickens is making the same point always: that to the English governing classes the people they govern… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
“it has been observed that Londoners became more extravagant in the presence of Charles Dickens, so that they might appear more Dickensian, so” — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
I'm not a Dickens guy. In grad school I had to take at least one course on the Victorians, so I took The Later… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off. — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
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… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
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… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
“Poor Nelly, she was not to know that fashions in sin change as much as other fashions.” — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
I continually get more information about a subject after the book has been published. — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
I was working at the 'Evening Standard' when I heard that there was a job going as deputy literary editor on the 'New Statesman.'… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
I've behaved badly in my life. I hope I haven't behaved as badly as Dickens! In a way, if you're a woman, you're not… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
Simon Russell Beale is an incomparable speaker of Shakespeare and a superb all-round actor. — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that, since I started writing biographies, I've had more of a life in books than I have had in my real… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head all… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
Biographers search for traces, for evidence of activity, for signs of movement, for letters, for diaries, for photographs. — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
You become more tolerant when you become older. You're not interested in rapping people over the knuckles; you're interested in understanding them. — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him. — W. H. Davies Copy Share Image
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One's own self-worth is tied to the worth of the community to which one belongs, which is intimately connected to humanity in general. What… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Liquid helium belongs to a class of fluids known as quantum fluids, as distinct from classical fluids. — David Lee Copy Share Image
We ought to get out of the judging business. We should leave it up to God to determine who belongs in one arena or… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
“The holiness of God makes Him the possessor of all earthly wealth, which belongs to Him forever” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
To me, wrestling is therapy. No matter how bad my personal situation is, when I step into the ring, all my troubles disappear. My… — Eddie Guerrero Copy Share Image
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