Quotes About Reading Charles Dickens

#1. As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn't seen him on their box, buy the paperback.

William Golding

#2. I can't change the past, but one person can change the future - anything can happen.

Paul Mooney

#3. She read Dickens in the same spirit she would have eloped with him.

Eudora Welty

#4. I found Uriah reading a great fat book, with such demonstrative attention, that his lank forefinger followed up every line as he read, and made clammy tracks along the page (or so I fully believed) like a snail.

Charles Dickens

#5. This was my only and my constant comfort. When I think of it, the picture always rises in my mind, of a summer evening, the boys at play in the churchyard, and I sitting on my bed, reading as if for life.

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#6. Let none count themselves wise who have not with the nerves of their imagination felt the pain of the vivisected.

John Cowper Powys

#7. We never tire of the friendships we form with books.

Charles Dickens

#8. The podcast movement was really a creative survival mechanism for standup comics.

Chris Hardwick

#9. All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading.

Anna Quindlen

#10. *I love climbing mountains in all fields (Whatever was this fields).
*I love tranquility and it is more for me precious than money.
*Honesty is a few valuable nowadays.
after willing of God and Step by step with Concentration i will achieve What I want to.

Charles Dickens

#11. Exercise is the beste intrument in learnyng.

Robert Recorde

#12. At one of these a lonely boy was reading near a feeble fire; and Scrooge sat down upon a form, and wept to see his poor forgotten self as he used to be.

Charles Dickens

#13. I was tired of reading, and dead sleepy; but having leave, as a high treat, to sit up until my mother came home from spending the evening at a neighbour's, I would rather have died upon my post (of course) than have gone to bed. I

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#14. Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life's latest sands are its sands of gold!

Julia Caroline Dorr

#15. I am not unique in my elegiac sadness at watching reading die, in the era that celebrates Stephen King and J.K. Rowling rather than Charles Dickens and Lewis Carroll.

Harold Bloom

#16. I'm reading Barnaby Rudge, one of the less well-known Dickens novels. I've been a life-long lover of Charles Dickens ever since I think A Tale of Two Cities was the first Dickens novel I read.

George Brandis

#17. I was ballet dancing at four, playing piano by six, and doing commercials by 12. When I was 21, I was on the number one live comedy show in Puerto Rico. I told my parents, 'I'm going to New York to become a performer.' And I left.

Roselyn Sanchez

#18. His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what is proper.

Hippolyte Taine

#19. I always channel my emotions into my work. That way, I don't hurt anyone but myself.

Suzanne Collins

#20. I have nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess that no one can ever believe this narrative, in the reading, more than I have believed it in the writing.

Charles Dickens

#21. One novel has been all my reading, Our Mutual Friend, one of the cleverest that Dickens has written.

Lewis Carroll

#22. I gaze at you (Great Pyramid of Giza), and I see time!

Ibrahim Ibrahim

#23. Every inch of land there is so contested," I observed, more to myself than to him. "How many lives have been lost fighting over Jerusalem? Yet it is not special in terms of architecture, or location, or works of art.

Margaret George

#24. I always compare human beings to animals. It's a nice way to figure out who they are.

Vincent Cassel

#25. If you attack Ann Coulter, you don't end up with your cat killed or your tires slashed.

Ann Coulter

#26. For I aint, you must know,' said Betty, 'much of a hand at reading writing-hand, though I can read my Bible and most print. And I do love a newspaper. You mightn't think it, but Sloppy is a beautiful reader of a newspaper. He do the Police in different voices.

Charles Dickens