Dickens

Famous quotes containing the word dickens:

    “Ask the perfumers, ask the blacking-makers, ask the hatters, ask the old lottery-office keepers—ask any man among ‘em what my poetry has done for him, and mark my words, he blesses the name of Slum. If he’s an honest man, he raises his eyes to heaven, and blesses the name of Slum—mark that!
    —Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

    Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
    —Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

    Ven you’re a married man, Samivel, you’ll understand a good many things as you don’t understand now; but vether it’s worth goin’ through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said ven he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter of taste.
    —Charles Dickens (1812–1870)