Aged Quote by Harry Lloyd

I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.

— William Shakespeare

“He read political books. They gave him phrases which he could only speak to himself and use on Shama. They also revealed one region…

— V.S. Naipaul

The whole world knows Dickens, his London and his characters.

— Claire Tomalin

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

I had a kind of Dickensian childhood.

— Shaun Cassidy

“I blame Charles Dickens for the death of my father'.”

— John Boyne

“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

“Despite the fact that he fathered ten children, Dickens, the write, never gave up his position as a child. He identified with children and…

— Siri Hustvedt

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.

— Alan Bennett

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

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

Everyone finds their own version of Charles Dickens. The child-victim, the irrepressibly ambitious young man, the reporter, the demonic worker, the tireless walker. The…

— Claire Tomalin