Dickens Quotes

“And we recall in Dickens' fiction how universal it is that a child looks after an adult, and how the adult remains so dependent upon the child that he becomes something worse than child-like.”
― Peter Ackroyd, Dickens

“It is characteristic of Dickens who, when he grasps the wrong end of the stick, never fails to belabour everyone in sight with it.”
― Peter Ackroyd, Dickens

“And how is it in any case that all of these characteristics and qualities so combined with each other that they formed the greatest novelist ever to have written in the English language? What power mad that?”
― Peter Ackroyd, Dickens