Charles Dickens Quote by Peter Ackroyd

Dickens belongs to the English people.

— Claire Tomalin

My neighborhood in South London was very Dickensian.

— Roger Rees

The whole world knows Dickens, his London and his characters.

— Claire Tomalin

Taking the humour out of Dickens, it's not Dickens any more.

— Andrew Davies

“…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

I'm not a Dickens guy. In grad school I had to take at least one course on the Victorians, so I took The Later…

— Lev Grossman

One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded.

— Danny Boyle

“It's odd how much our perception of cities owes to stories and films.We talk about 'Dickensian' London as if it had some real existence…

— Joel Lane

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

— John Gray

“Customer: Did Charles Dickens ever write anything fun?”

— Jen Campbell

The thing about Dickens is you either love him or you hate him and I fell in love with Dickens, I fell in love…

— George Brandis