Quote by p g wodehouse Download Open image ““He was more like something out of Dickens than anything human.”” — p g wodehouse ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Dickens enjoyed human beings as he found them, unregenerate, peculiar and incorrigibly themselves.” — John Gray Copy Share Image
“He left a trail like a meteor, and everyone finds their own version of Charles Dickens.” — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
“Dickens didn't write what people wanted. He wanted what people wanted.” — G.K. Chesterton 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
“I wonder if Dickens knew he was writing historical fiction when he wrote his many novels.” — Michael Kroft Copy Share Image
“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 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
“I’m not sure I’d have put Charles Dickens next to Isaac Newton except at a dinner party, and then only if Nellie Melba hadn’t… — T E Kinsey Copy Share Image
“…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 Copy Share Image
“I remained motionless, like a ventriloquist's dummy whose ventriloquist has gone off to the local and left it sitting.” — P G Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Major-General Sir Wilfred Bosher came to distribute the prizes at that school', proceeded Gussie in a dull, toneless voice.'He dropped a book. He stooped… — P G Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“I don't know if you suffer in the same way, but with me the act of talking in the nature of real mashed potatoes… — P G Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“He seemed a little uneasy, and he welcomed me with something of the gratitude of the shipwrecked mariner who sights a sail.” — P G Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“The first intimation I had that things were about to hot up was a pained and disapproving cough from the neighbourhood of the carpet.” — P G Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“It is a peculiar thing in life that the people you most particularly want to edge away from always seem to cluster round like… — p g wodehouse Copy Share Image
“She had a laugh like a squadron of cavalry charging over a tin bridge.” — P G Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“I gave it up. The man annoyed me. I hadn't the slightest objection to his spending his time planning massacres for the bourgeoisie, but… — P G Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“So!' he said, at length, and it came as a complete surprise to me that fellows ever really do say 'So!'. I had always… — P G Wodehouse Copy Share Image
