Historical-romance Quote by Moriah Densley

“My respect for the law was diminishing with every exchange. Dickens was right. The law is an ass, and I was starting to think…

— Wendy Buonaventura

“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

“The law is a ass, Sir!”

— Charles Dickens

“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

“Dickens didn't write what people wanted. He wanted what people wanted.”

— G.K. Chesterton

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

— John Boyne

“In the act of creation there is always, it seems, an awful selfishness. So Dickens's wife and mistress had to suffer so that dickens…

— Graham Greene

“I snorted. “They still make you read Dickens in school? Great Expectations?” “Yeah.” “You can stay at home and hide if you want—and wind…

— Jim Butcher

“…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

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

— p g wodehouse

According to Dickens, the first rule of human nature is self-preservation and when I forgive him for writing a character as pathetic as Oliver…

— Melina Marchetta

“I love you, but why must you love the law? 'Tis plain for all to see that she's a whore...that virtuous persons have no…

— Alan Moore