Dickens Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton Download Open image “Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dickens Language Mean
“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 Copy Share Image
'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 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
'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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Dickens was born in 1812 and died in 1870, having produced fifteen novels, many of which can confidently be called great, as well as… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Great Expectations [book by Charles Dickens] has been described as "Dickens's harshest indictment of society." Which it is. After all, it's about money. About… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
I like to do really good things. But 'good' - witness Charles Dickens - doesn't mean 'not popular.' — Roger Rees Copy Share Image
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these? — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Something that comes to us, some gym shoe that comes to us as a result of child labor from a brutal dictatorship, where people… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“(On Charles Dickens) It has been the peculiarity and the marvel of this man’s power, that he has invested his puppets with a charm… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Old Flossie settle down on the other side of What-the-Dickens and dragged some handiwork out of a sack. She armed herself with two thorns… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And also, the… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
In spite of their obvious differences, folk art and popular art have much in common; they are easy to understand, they are romantic, patriotic,… — Gilbert Seldes Copy Share Image
On the day long after childhood when I suddenly heard of his death, the sky grew dark above my head. I was walking on… — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Copy Share Image
Great books are readable anyway. Dickens is readable. Jane Austen is readable. John Updike's readable. Hawthorne's readable. It's a meaningless term. You have to… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“As I know only too well, anticipation od happiness can sometimes be as gratifying as its consummation. Even during the first months of my… — Gaynor Arnold Copy Share Image
[President Johnson] had the political will to say that having one in five Americans living in the kind of abject conditions their fellow citizens… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Something went wrong with my right arm. I no longer could throw hard, and it hurt like the dickens every time I threw. — Dazzy Vance Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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