Quotes about Author
So it is that intelligent people often reserve their outrage almost exclusively for what they see as judgmental attitudes — - the one evil they are willing to indict with impunity.
— Charles Colson
A demd, damp, moist, unpleasant body!
— Charles Dickens
I had seen the damp lying on the outside of my little window, as if some goblin had been crying there all night, and using the window for a pocket-handkerchief.
— Charles Dickens
The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.
— Charles Dickens
The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people's one.
— Charles Dickens
Whitewash on the forehead hardens the brain into a state of obstinacy, perhaps.
— Charles Dickens
He has got his discharge, by G-! said the man. He had. But he had grown so like death in life, that they knew not when he died.
— Charles Dickens
The very stars to which I then raised my eyes, I am afraid I took to be but poor and humble stars for glittering on the rustic objects among which I had passed my life.
— Charles Dickens
Among these, accordingly, much discoursing with spirits went on - and it did a world of good which never became manifest.
— Charles Dickens
But the woman who stood knitting looked up steadily, and looked the Marquis in the face.
— Charles Dickens
Yes, sir," said I; "him too; late of this parish.
— Charles Dickens
Mr. Boffin, as if he were about to have his portrait painted, or to be electrified, or to be made a Freemason, or to be placed at any other solitary disadvantage, ascended the rostrum prepared for him.
— Charles Dickens