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Quotes from Charles Dickens — George Orwell

1903–1950

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Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

Charles Dickens (1939)

When one reads any strongly individual piece of writing, one has the impression of seeing a face somewhere behind the page. It is not necessarily the actual face of the writer.

Charles Dickens (1939)

The great disadvantage, and advantage, of the small urban bourgeois is his limited outlook. He sees the world as a middle-class world, and everything outside, these limits is either laughable or slightly wicked.

Charles Dickens (1939)

There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.

Charles Dickens (1939)

The outstanding, unmistakable mark of Dickens's writing is the unnecessary detail.

Charles Dickens (1939)

If Dickens were alive to-day he would make a trip to Soviet Russia and come back with a book rather like Gide's Retour de L'URSS.

Charles Dickens (1939)

What now strikes us as remarkable about the new moneyed class of the nineteenth century is their complete irresponsibility; they see everything in terms of individual success, with hardly any consciousness that the community exists.

Charles Dickens (1939)

A joke worth laughing at always has an idea behind it, and usually a subversive idea. Dickens is able to go on being funny because he is in revolt against authority, and authority is always there to be laughed at.

Charles Dickens (1939)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Orwell (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.