Time Quote by Les Standiford

“A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times because they knew it so…

— G.K. Chesterton

“He was more like something out of Dickens than anything human.”

— p g wodehouse

“Dickens enjoyed human beings as he found them, unregenerate, peculiar and incorrigibly themselves.”

— John Gray

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

When you live with Dickens for years, reading him and trying to present him as faithfully as you can, you can't fail to love…

— Claire Tomalin

Dickens is a lover of human beings; a relisher of human beings.

— Claire Tomalin

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

“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

“…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

“The more a man is given to sentiment ,the more likely is he to be wordy and to speak well.”

— Denis de Rougemont

“A loving heart is the truest wisdom. —Charles Dickens”

— Marie Force

“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