Dickensian Quotes

The city overwhelmed our expectations. The Kiplingesque grandeur of Waterloo Station, the Eliotic despondency of the brick row in Chelsea the Dickensian nightmare of fog and sweating pavement and besmirched cornices. (John Updike)
...Australian English may be thought of as a kind of fossilised Cockney of the Dickensian era. View quote
Anthony Burgess
I had this almost Dickensian look. I was quite fragile. View quote
Rod Stewart
My dad is kind of a rascal, like in a Dickensian sense. He just goes from career to career. View quote
Benjamin Walker
It was my angry, Dickensian novel, I suppose. It was cathartic - I expended a lot of frustration on that one. View quote
Richard Helms
I had a kind of Dickensian childhood. View quote
Shaun Cassidy
If you've been to China, you know there are over 100 cities in China, and the pollution levels are just horrific - 60,000 people a year die in Chinese factories and facilities, because they don't have any safety regulations. It's a carnage; it's Dickensian. View quote
Peter Navarro
In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all. View quote
A. N. Wilson