Charles Dickens — "The English people are, on the whole, a very good-natured people, but they are a…"
The English people are, on the whole, a very good-natured people, but they are also a very obstinate people.
Get This Quote & Author's Image Illustrated On:
Click any product to generate a realistic preview. Up to 3 at a time.
* Initial load can take up to 90 seconds — revising the preview in another color is nearly instant.
Kitchen
Apparel
Other
More from Charles Dickens
"I think the English people are a very dull and uninteresting people."
"I think that the best thing a man can do is to try to make the best of everything."
"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts."
"I am a believer in Marley’s Ghost."
"I believe that the present system of prison discipline is a failure."
About Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
English novelist whose Oliver Twist (1838), A Christmas Carol (1843), and Bleak House (1852) made Victorian poverty inescapable for the British middle class. Closely associated with William Makepeace Thackeray (Vanity Fair rival and contemporary serial novelist) and George Eliot (later Victorian giant who built on Dickens's social-realism foundation). For an intellectual contrast, see Jeremy Bentham, founder of utilitarianism (1748-1832) — Mr. Gradgrind in Hard Times (1854) is a direct caricature of Bentham-style social calculation — 'Facts, sir, nothing but Facts!' is the most-cited literary attack on utilitarianism's reduction of human life to measurable units. Dickens's serialized social-novel form is itself a rebuke of utilitarian abstraction.