Dickens Quote by Felix Dennis

'Great Expectations' has been described as 'Dickens's harshest indictment of society.' Which it is. After all, it's about money. About not having enough money;…

— Felix Dennis

'Great Expectations', in short, is a more damning account of the mess Dickens himself had made of love than any denunciation on behalf of…

— Howard Jacobson

“In the act of creation there is always, it seems, an awful selfishness. So Dickens's wife and mistress had to suffer so that dickens…

— Graham Greene

I'm totally obsessed with Dickens, and 'Great Expectations' was one of the first book's I read when I was still in school in Porthcawl.

— Paul Rhys

“Dickens' hypocrites are the prime beneficiaries of his inventive genius. The heroes and heroines have no imagination. We could scrap all the solemn parts…

— John Carey

Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means. Even the fastidious and unhappy who cannot read his books without a continuous critical…

— G.K. Chesterton

“I recently discovered that a friend who was re-reading Bleak House had done no other Dickens apart from Barnaby Ridge. That's just weird. I…

— Nick Hornby

The gift of a writer as good as Dickens is not to explain everything; that way, the reader has, in terms of their imagination,…

— Ronald Frame

“In Charles Dickens's books I had to admire the way the meanest enemies spoke to each other, with what seemed to me to be…

— Jane Hamilton

“Finally, while I don’t want to disparage the traditional novel--I still prefer Dickens’s Great Expectations over Kathy Acker’s Great Expectations, though I’ll take Lauren…

— Steven Moore

“One must be prepared to fight for one’s simple pleasures and to defend them against elegance and erudition and all manner of glamorous enticements.…

— Amor Towles