84 Dickens Quotes for You to Enjoy

I think that with Bob Dylan around, we're living in an era where we have Whitman presenting new work, we have Dickens presenting new work, we have Yeats and Shakespeare presenting new work. It's that level. Benmont Tench

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Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page. Terry Pratchett

Home You Never Know Got His Dickens Page Round Starting

Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn't be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely. Maya Angelou

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I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And also, the short stories of Updike, Cheever, Munro, Alice Adams, and Doris Lessing. And the plays of Oscar Wilde. And paintings by Alice Neel and Matisse. Amy Bloom

I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces. Anne Rice

Teacher Claim Mentor Driving He Forces Dickens

If you look at Charles Dickens's time, there were so many different levels of society and everybody understood their place in it, it was that complex and simple. I'm not sure we have that now. Anthony Horowitz

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Not until somebody turns round and says, 'Art, how do you fancy playing Charles Dickens? How do you fancy playing Prince Charles in this biopic?' Until those movements come, then no, we haven't got past anything. Art Malik

I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare. Ben Okri

Home Me London Shakespeare Because Dickens Literature

I am greatly impressed with the BBC's TV adaption of Charles Dickens' 'Bleak House.' The costumes, the sets, the acting and the screenplay are all superb. Every episode is riveting. Cecilia Dart-Thornton

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

Great Characters Shakespeare Dickens After Multiple Creator

Dickens was a part of how the whole celebration of Christmas as we know it today emerged during the 19th century. Claire Tomalin

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

World Characters London Knows His Dickens Whole

I've behaved badly in my life. I hope I haven't behaved as badly as Dickens! In a way, if you're a woman, you're not in a position to behave as badly, because you don't have the economic power. Claire Tomalin

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Dickens is a lover of human beings; a relisher of human beings. Claire Tomalin

Lover Dickens Human Human Beings Beings

The young Dickens was so alive, so self-confident, so funny. Claire Tomalin

Funny Young Alive Self-Confident Dickens

Dickens never joined a political party nor put forward a political programme. He was a writer who rightly saw his power as coming through his fiction. Claire Tomalin

The novel at its nineteenth-century pinnacle was a Judaized novel: George Eliot and Dickens and Tolstoy were all touched by the Jewish covenant: they wrote of conduct and of the consequences of conduct: they were concerned with a society of will and commandment. Cynthia Ozick

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

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