70 Quotes About Dickens

It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows, listening for the thunder which they know will shortly break; when they recall dismal tales of hurricanes and earthquakes; and of lonely travelers on open plains, and lonely ships at sea, struck by lightning.

I nearly fell asleep over Dickens in English. Mind you, he's snoozeworthy at the best of times.

I always loved that boy as if he'd been my-- my-- my own grandfather.

Dickens seems to have succeeded in attacking everybody and antagonizing nobody.

Nosotros, los hombres de negocios que estamos al servicio de una empresa, no disponemos de nosotros mismos. Antes que en nosotros, tenemos que pensar en la empresa

Možda pisci poput Dickensa duguju svoju veliku popularnost za života upravo činjenici da je novac u njihovim romanima pokretač svega, s čime se većina čitalaca lako mogla identificirati. S modernizmom je novac nezamjetno nestao iz književnosti. Istina, Virginia Woolf u svome bezbroj puta citiranome eseju "Vlastita soba" tvrdi da se žena ne može baviti pisanjem ukoliko ne posjeduje vlastitu sobu i minimalan dohodak od petsto funti godišnje.

...the cab of the truck heated up nicely, its windows fogging. I felt like a Dickens character. I thought about explaining that to Mouse, just to occupy my thoughts, but he was suffering enough without being forced to endure Dickens, even by proxy.

In his novels from beginning to end, Dickens is making the same point always: that to the English governing classes the people they govern are not real.

Era davvero uno strano spettacolo guardare quella personcina seduta, i cui piedi non arrivavano a terra, completamente assorta nelle meravigliose avventure di Pip e della vecchia signorina Havisham con la sua casa piena di ragnatele, persa nell'incantesimo che Dickens, il grande inventore di storie, aveva saputo creare.