Dickens

Famous quotes containing the word dickens:

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

    Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.
    —Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

    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)