Dickensian Quotes

“My flesh and blood...when it rises against me, is not my flesh and blood. I discard it.”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“His limp had been very pronounced that day, and he had been self-conscious, feeling—as he often did—as if he were playing the role of an impoverished governess in a Dickensian drama.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Dickensian poverty tends to occur after Christmas in January. For it is then, with pockets empty, diary decimated and larder bare, that the general populace sinks into a collective pauper's hibernation until Valentine's Day.”
― Stewart Stafford

“If I felt less, I could do more.”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield