Related Quotes
dickens greater heard heaven purity thank
I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself. Goldwin Smith
dickens english fact greatest guys joke joys language life maybe save table though top
One of the most blissful joys of the English language is the fact that one of its greatest practitioners ever, one of the guys on the very top table of all, was a jokesmith. Though maybe it shouldn't be that big a surprise. Who else would be up there? Austen, of course, Dickens and Chaucer. The only one who couldn't make a joke to save his life would be Shakespeare. Douglas Adams
dickens father headed mother
My father read Dickens out loud. My mother would say 'We're going to the workhouse'. This to me was real. I was headed for the gruel. Simon Schama
dickens earlier few immense production promote rank second side
Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by not a few names which should rank high in the second class, while some would promote more than one of them to the first. George Saintsbury
dickens explain good reader somewhere terms
The gift of a writer as good as Dickens is not to explain everything; that way, the reader has, in terms of their imagination, somewhere to go.
dickens shot
Bo just shot the dickens out of it.
dickens felt hated spoke worked
As a young man, Dickens worked as a reporter in the House of Commons and hated it. He felt that all politicians spoke with the same voice. Claire Tomalin
dickens great multiple
After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters.
dickens sons
Dickens had more energy than anyone in the world, and he expected his sons to be like him, and they couldn't be.
greatness men mind
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds. Charles Caleb Colton
greatness deserving-it mind
Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.
greatness men
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
greatness men too-much
Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.
great-expectations secret tears
The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away. Charles Dickens
great-expectations strange melancholy
So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...
great-expectations may done
But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
great-expectations may let-me
Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
greatness excellence littles
True greatness consists in being great in little things. Charles Simmons
multiple revise watching
Watching big-name high-techs revise down multiple times is very discouraging,
multiple zone
We're going to play a lot of man-to-man coverage. We're also going to play some zone as well. We just want to give him multiple looks.
multiple vision
When we first started, we went through multiple ideas. We thought we had a vision of what we wanted to do. Jonathan Lee
multiple-choice choices tests
When I am given a multiple choice test I choose not to take it. Demetri Martin
multiple tv
To play different characters on a TV show where you're working every day, playing multiple characters every day, it's so ridiculously intense. Michiel Huisman
multiple works
I think everyone in Hollywood works on multiple things because you never know what's going to happen with your projects. Carlton Cuse
multiple powerful swings
(Mitchell) is very athletic, so she can play multiple positions. She swings a powerful bat.
multiple record sources verify
Get in the habit of vetting your research as you go - particularly research conducted online. Verify facts from multiple reputable sources before you record them.
multiple series
I fought to make a multiple series commitment with John Wells.