UITSPRAKEN VAN EN OVER DICKENS
Christmas:
"For the sickly maw of sentiment in which their celebration of the winter solstice wallows the English must thank
Prince Albert, who brought the Christmas tree with him from Saxe Coburg-Gotha, and Charles Dickens who
wrapped it in tinsel.
Cricket:
"Capitalgame - smart sport —fine exercise - very,says Mr. Jongle in The Pickwick Papers.
Charles Dickens:
Queen Victoria wrote on his death: "He had a large loving mind, and the strongest sympathy with the poorest
classes. He felt sure a betterfeeling, and much greater union of classes, would take place in time. And I pray
earnestly it may. "Insofar as Victoria's prayer has been answered, Charles Dickens, pop writer nonpareil, must be
given a bold credit line.
'What the dickens what the devil". A strongform of What. Shakespeare is the first to be credited with it, in
The Merry Wives of Windsor (1598): "I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.
On Millais's "Christ in the House of His Parents":
"In the foreground of the carpenter's shop is a hideous, wry-necked, blubberingred-haired boy in a nightgown,
who appears to have received a poke playing in an adjacent gutter, and to be holding it up for the contemplation of
a kneeling woman, so horrible in het ugliness that (sipposing it were possible for any human creature to exist for a
moment with that dislocated throat) she would stand out from the rest of he company as a monster in the vilest
cabaret in France or the lowest gin-shop in England.
The Americans:
'Their demeanoris invariably morose, sullen, clownish, and repulsive. I should think there is not, on the face op
the earth, a people so entirely destitute of humour, vivacity, or the capacity of enjoyment.
Bloomers:
"No public business of any kind coidd possibly be done at any time, without the acquiescence of the Circumlocution
Office. Its finger was in the largest public pie, and in the smallest public tart.(Tittle Dorrit)
'I had cherished a profound conviction that her bringing me ip by hand gave her no right to bring me ip byjerks.
(Great Expectations)
Dickens' handwriting:
'His handwriting was as small as Thackeray's but very sloppy and was usual in blue ink on blue paper.
Great reception of The Old Curiosity Shop:
