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)

    An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men.
    —Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

    If you have this enormous talent, it’s got you by the balls, it’s a demon. You can’t be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn’t that nice a guy.
    Dustin Hoffman (b. 1937)