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“change was very difficult,’ he says. ‘But I think the best way to try to protect the legacy and the accomplishments of the past…

— Troy Bramston

My affinity, as a novelist, with Dickens has been overstated. I relish the way everything in his prose pulsates with life force, and I'm…

— Michel Faber

That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on…

— Charlotte Bronte

I think it's essential for comic writers to have a hate figure, a despot, a regime to react against, and I think Thatcher was…

— Sue Townsend

“Society.” John Forster, who would one day become Dickens’s great friend, adviser, editor, and first biographer, wrote in the Examiner that Dickens had excelled…

— Les Standiford

“Ashleigh’s a manipulative liar,” Jenny said. “She makes Dick Cheney look like Mr. Rogers.” “That is an ugly thing to say about Dick Cheney!”…

— J.L. Bryan

“If Miss Beresford had not been in such a hurry to marry a poor country clergyman, there was no knowing what she might not…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“Mr. Winterborne is in no way beneath me, ma'am. Character is a far more important measure of a man than birth." "Well said. Fortunately…

— Lisa Kleypas

To a Brit of my generation, one of the most objectionable things about [Margaret] Thatcher is her falsity. She is a total construct. For…

— Hilary Mantel

Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man's…

— Joseph Addison

“Turnbull, whose powers of surprise were exhausted, rolled his round grey eyes and said, "Mr. Wilkinson, I think," because he could not think of…

— G.K. Chesterton

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