Adulation Quote by Felicity Jones

I think that when [Charles] Dickens met Nelly [Ternan] it unleashed this sort of carnal, anarchic, cruel energy within him, and literally after she…

— Felicity Jones

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

I doubt if Dickens did, especially his women-his pretty women-Mrs. Dombey, Florence, Dora, Agnes, Ruth Pinch, Kate Nickleby, little Emily-we know them all through…

— George du Maurier

I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.

— William Shakespeare

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

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

The young Dickens was so alive, so self-confident, so funny.

— Claire Tomalin

She read Dickens in the same spirit she would have eloped with him.

— Eudora Welty

Dickens is a much misunderstood and mis-approached writer, in that he tends to be read, particularly in the twentieth century, as a social commentator…

— Martin Amis

Dickens is a lover of human beings; a relisher of human beings.

— Claire Tomalin

I think Austin is read more now than Charles Dickens, and Dickens was much more popular in his day. She endures because of her…

— Whit Stillman

I had a kind of Dickensian childhood.

— Shaun Cassidy