Dickens

Famous quotes containing the word dickens:

    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)

    There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
    —Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

    There was a literary gentleman present who who had dramatised in his time two hundred and forty-seven novels as fast as they had come out—and who was a literary gentleman in consequence.
    —Charles Dickens (1812–1870)