I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.
I had a kind of Dickensian childhood.
The young Dickens was so alive, so self-confident, so funny.
Dickens is a lover of human beings; a relisher of human beings.
I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.
Dickens belongs to the English people.
We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
The whole world knows Dickens, his London and his characters.
The gift of a writer as good as Dickens is not to explain everything; that way, the reader has, in terms of their imagination, somewhere to go.
Taking the humour out of Dickens, it's not Dickens any more.