Beings Quote by Claire Tomalin Download Open image “Dickens is a lover of human beings; a relisher of human beings.” — Claire Tomalin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Beings Dickens Human Human beings Lover
“Dickens enjoyed human beings as he found them, unregenerate, peculiar and incorrigibly themselves.” — John Gray Copy Share Image
The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
The thing about Dickens is you either love him or you hate him and I fell in love with Dickens, I fell in love… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
In his life, Charles Dickens was like the rest of us, but maybe more so: another poor and wonderful soul attempting to deal with… — Fred Kaplan 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
When you live with Dickens for years, reading him and trying to present him as faithfully as you can, you can't fail to love… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
“…some bits of Dickens-books with which latter I am long familiar and long enamored for the restful falseness of their sentiment and the pungent… — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
I admire Dickens beyond words. He is one of the greatest plotters of all times. Didn't have a clue about women, but he sure… — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
According to Dickens, the first rule of human nature is self-preservation and when I forgive him for writing a character as pathetic as Oliver… — Melina Marchetta 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
Dickens never joined a political party nor put forward a political programme. He was a writer who rightly saw his power as coming through… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
What we're supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this… — Emily Browning Copy Share Image
A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated… — Hanns Eisler Copy Share Image
For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I'm a humanist at heart: at the end of the day, we are all human beings. — Chet Faker Copy Share Image
My intended audience was everybody. I just want to make cartoons for human beings. — John Kricfalusi Copy Share Image
Everyone else on the planet, from the lowest amoebae to the great blue whale, expresses all their component elements in a perfect dance with… — Nicholas Lore Copy Share Image
I have never really been fond of animals. I certainly wasn't an 'animal lover' when I became involved in the movement. I just came… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
As human beings, we aren't as individual as we'd like to believe we are. And I think that's what makes acting possible. Despite the… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
We cannot deal with people like human beings, we cannot deal with them on the high level of true humanity, unless we really know… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Spiritual beings, either from the beginning or soon thereafter, become what they are to be for ever and ever. — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Copy Share Image
