(13 quotes found)
“Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.”
Michael Caine
“They can't say you'll go to jail. Though Charles Dickens loved them, America does not have debtors' prisons.”
Cort Jensen
“Dickens loved the idea of a cliff-hanger and delivered the novel in instalments. I have an idea he would have loved television drama.”
John Batchelor
“What the dickens!”
Thomas Heywood
“I hadn't read the novel Bleak House . I'd read Dickens, but not this novel. I'd read several of his great novels, though I think it's different if you read them when you're young. You appreciate the storytelling, the stand-out characters, but you don't appreciate his ability as a writer, the depth of his humanity. He writes about everything, the rich, the poor, the prisons, the law courts, the country houses, the orphans and the families. I read the script for Bleak House and I was tentative about it. I'd told the producers, 'I don't do television.' But they charmed me and I did actually read the novel. I was captivated.”
Gillian Anderson
“Bo just shot the dickens out of it.”
Randy Lambert
“They can't say you'll go to jail. Though Charles Dickens loved them, America does not have debtor's prisons.”
“Whilst some may argue that Dickens is really too big a morsel to be swallowed by text, the Great Inimitable himself began working life as a short hand writer,”
John Sutherland
“Dickens, obviously, is a great hero.”
Jonathan Coe
“I've always loved Dickens. And Henry James. Tolstoy, Dostoevski.”
Norman Rockwell
