Dickens

Famous quotes containing the word dickens:

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

“A baked leg of mutton, with potatoes to correspond.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

“To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen to the falling rain, and crouch for warmth beneath the lee of some old barn or rick, or in the hollow of a tree; are dismal things—but not so dismal as the wandering up and down where shelter is, and beds and sleepers are by thousands; a houseless rejected creature.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)