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)

    The plot was most interesting. It belonged to no particular age, people, or country, and was perhaps the more delightful on that account, as nobody’s previous information could afford the remotest glimmering of what would ever come of it.
    —Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

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