Quote by John Marston

“You cannot read Dickens without putting in a little more effort. You cannot eat a ripe pawpaw without its innards and juice spilling down…

— Lloyd Jones

“It is characteristic of Dickens who, when he grasps the wrong end of the stick, never fails to belabour everyone in sight with it.”

— Peter Ackroyd

“…some bits of Dickens-books with which latter I am long familiar and long enamored for the restful falseness of their sentiment and the pungent…

— Mary MacLane

Stop, look, listen. I spit on your grave, then I grab my Charles Dickens.

— The Notorious B.I.G

“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

I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.

— William Shakespeare

“The Handy Hammer Syndrome, in which the hammer in your hand makes everything look like a nail.”

— Christopher McDougall

I was writing a story, 'The Artistic Career of Corky,' about two young men, Bertie Wooster and his friend Corky, getting into a lot…

— P. G. Wodehouse

I had this almost Dickensian look. I was quite fragile.

— Rod Stewart

A tender young cork, however, would have had no more chance against a pair of corkscrews, or a tender young tooth against a pair…

— Charles Dickens

“And if you expect you'll gain anything from us by your way of approachin' us, you're jolly well mistaken. That's all. Good-night.' They clattered…

— Rudyard Kipling

“As the saying goes, when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Reader,”

— Neal Stephenson