Dickens Quotes

• Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

  Michael Caine

  Inspiring, Encouragement, Bad Day

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• Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Teacher, Mark, Dearest Friend

  Lloyd Alexander (2006). “The Foundling: And Other Tales of Prydain”, p.97, Macmillan

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• I called my mom, and I was so excited. I was telling her, 'I'm going to be on the Grand Ole Opry! This is crazy!' And she told me, 'Watch out for Jimmy Dickens, because he likes the pretty girls.

  Carrie Underwood

  Girl, Mom, Crazy

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• As a former English major, I am a sitting duck for Gift Books, and in the past few years I've gotten Dickens, Thackeray, Smollet, Richardson, Emerson, Keats, Boswell and the Brontes, all of them Great, none of them ever read by me, all of them now on a shelf, looking at me and making me feel guilty.

  Garrison Keillor

  Book, Past, Years

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• I think [Charles] Dickens was an extrovert and Nelly [Ternan] an introvert, and I think that Nelly saw beyond the fame and adulation and she actually loved Dickens essentially for who he was. So I think he felt like she was someone he could be himself with.

  Felicity Jones

  Thinking, Extroverts, Saws

  Source: www.shockya.com

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• I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Names, Windsor

  1597-8 Mistress Page.TheMerryWives ofWindsor, act 3, sc.2, l.16.

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• I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.

  David McCullough

  Way, Scene

  Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. 2003.

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• I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.

  Donna Tartt

  Character, Alive, Literature

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• The Five Points was the toughest street corner in the world. That's how it was known. In fact, Charles Dickens visited it in the 1850s and he said it was worse than anything he'd seen in the East End of London.

  Martin Scorsese

  East, World, London

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• Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough.

  Anne Rice

  Thinking, Moments, Enough

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

  Anne Rice

  Teacher, Mentor, Driving

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• Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind.

  Bob Dylan

  Mind, Stories, Sticks

  "Only Human Driftin' And Learnin'" by Sidney Fields. New York Mirror, December 9, 1963.

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• When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of Dickens.

  Jodi Picoult

  Thinking, Fiction, Use

  "The great unknown". Interview with Louise France, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2007.

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• I don't read many business books. I read good fiction. Business is about people, so my favorite business books are anything by Dickens.

  Tom Peters

  Book, People, Fiction

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• I've been in the entertainment industry since I was six-years-old ... As Charles Dickens says, 'It's been the best of times, the worst of times.' But I would not change my career ... While some have made deliberate attempts to hurt me, I take it in stride because I have a loving family, a strong faith and wonderful friends and fans who have, and continue, to support me.

  Michael Jackson

  Strong, Hurt, Wonderful Friends

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.

  Margaret Atwood

  Once Upon A Time, Novelists, Century

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• We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.

  Alan Bennett

  Children, Cheesy, Humanity

  Old Country (1978) act 2

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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

  Cities, Growth, London

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. November 26, 2008.

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• I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.

  Feist

  London, Charmed

  "Feist: 'I was basically raised by the Muppets'". Interview with Gareth Grundy, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2010.

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• When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about.

  Alan King

  Father, Firsts, Oppression

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• Although many of his other novels are brilliant there is a power in 'Oliver Twist' that I believe Dickens never managed to retrieve. It is as if he was sent to this earth with the sole purpose of writing this book.

  Henning Mankell

  Believe, Book, Writing

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• My favourite authors include Trollope and Dickens.

  Kevin McCloud

  Favourite

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• There's always a host of voices you're inspired by. I love Don DeLillo, and I love Isaac Bashevis Singer, and I love Beckett, and I love Pinter. He's one of the funniest voices in English literature since Dickens.

  Dylan Moran

  Voice, Literature, Singers

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

  Ben Okri

  Home, Literature, London

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• Most of us wait until we're in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we'd wake up and say, "Anything I can do for You today, Lord?"

  Bill Vaughan

  God, Morning, Waiting

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