Quotes by Dickens, Charles

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together. >>

I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two s >>

A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of hi >>

Quotations about Sarcasm

It is difficult not to write satire. >>

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love. >>

By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody >>

I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tomorrow, he would be hunted down. If you have any knowledge of our literature, and can give me the name of any man, American born and bred, who has anatomized our follies as a people, and not as this or that party; and who has escaped the foulest and most brutal slander, the most inveterate hatred and intolerant pursuit; it will be a strange name in my ears, believe me.

Dickens, Charles