Dickens

Famous quotes containing the word dickens:

    My mother read secondarily for information; she sank as a hedonist into novels. She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.
    Eudora Welty (b. 1909)

    It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one’s hand.
    —Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

    It was not exactly a hairdresser’s; that is to say, people of a coarse and vulgar turn of mind might have called it a barber’s; for they not only cut and curled ladies elegantly, and children carefully, but shaved gentlemen easily.
    —Charles Dickens (1812–1870)