Dickens Quote by Darren H. Pryce

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

“Why Mr. Dickens, in his biography of that particular moment, preferred to focus on the adventures of the orphan parish child, Oliver Twist, remains…

— Peter David

“Dickens enjoyed human beings as he found them, unregenerate, peculiar and incorrigibly themselves.”

— John Gray

“Customer: Did Charles Dickens ever write anything fun?”

— Jen Campbell

“So far as he could prevent it, Dickens never permitted a day of his life to be ordinary. There was always some prank, some…

— G.K. Chesterton

“I snorted. “They still make you read Dickens in school? Great Expectations?” “Yeah.” “You can stay at home and hide if you want—and wind…

— Jim Butcher

“He left a trail like a meteor, and everyone finds their own version of Charles Dickens.”

— Claire Tomalin

“It may be all very well in Dickens, but when you read Dickens you're reading a long ballad from a vanished world, where everything…

— Per Petterson

“Dickens's humanity and compassion made an extraordinary impact on Victorian England through his writings, which remain immensely popular. This bicentenary should help renew our…

— Anonymous

“…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

“Dickens writes that one of his characters, "listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business.”

— Charles Dickens

“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