Dickens Quote by Simon Callow

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

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

— Claire Tomalin

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

— Marie Force

There's more of yourself in a book than a play. that's why we know all about Dickens and not much about Shakespeare. Ben Jonson…

— John Mortimer

Dickens belongs to the English people.

— Claire Tomalin

“The more a man learns, Dickens said, “the better, gentler, kinder man he must become. When he knows how much great minds have suffered…

— Les Standiford

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

“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

“Dickens must have first heard his famous The law is an ass quote from a woman. And she was damned right, for all the…

— Moriah Densley

Shakespeare is a great psychologist, and whatever can be known of the heart of man may be found in his plays.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— p g wodehouse