Book Quote by Paul Rhys

“Finally, while I don’t want to disparage the traditional novel--I still prefer Dickens’s Great Expectations over Kathy Acker’s Great Expectations, though I’ll take Lauren…

— Steven Moore

“Society.” John Forster, who would one day become Dickens’s great friend, adviser, editor, and first biographer, wrote in the Examiner that Dickens had excelled…

— Les Standiford

After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters.

— Claire Tomalin

“Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means. Even the fastidious and unhappy who cannot read his books without a continuous critical…

— G.K. Chesterton

'Great Expectations', in short, is a more damning account of the mess Dickens himself had made of love than any denunciation on behalf of…

— Howard Jacobson

“I recently discovered that a friend who was re-reading Bleak House had done no other Dickens apart from Barnaby Ridge. That's just weird. I…

— Nick Hornby

“Mrs. Pocket was at home, and was in a little difficulty, on account of the baby's having been accommodated with a needle case to…

— Charles Dickens

'Great Expectations' has been described as 'Dickens's harshest indictment of society.' Which it is. After all, it's about money. About not having enough money;…

— Felix Dennis

Great Expectations [book by Charles Dickens] has been described as "Dickens's harshest indictment of society." Which it is. After all, it's about money. About…

— Felix Dennis

But since doing the film ["The Invisible Woman"] I've really learned to appreciate [Charles Dickens], he's phenomenal. "Great Expectations" would be one of my…

— Felicity Jones

“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

“Very few can overcome their immediate feelings of hurt and victimhood and channelize it in creative ways of self-transformation. Often such a process takes…

— Shaheen Akhter Suraiya Begum Hameeda Hossain Sultana Kamal Meghna Guhathakurta Meghna Guhathakurta

“Great expectations can lead to inspiring and dramatic results if you're willing to take the next steps, trying to make a way in this…

— Germany Kent

“It is hard luck on a young fellow to have expensive tastes, great expectations, aristocratic connections but no actual money in his pocket, and…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“You are destiny for greatness. Your future is in the hands of the Lord.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita