We've had Shakespeare...

[p_p_man]

...now it's Dickens turn.

What part(s) of his writings stick in your mind?

Mine is when Fagan is talking to his boys and they start arguing, he turns round and snaps at them:

"Shut up and drink yer gin.."

I think that's priceless.

 

[morninggirl5]

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

I'll never forget spending literally weeks discussing the irony and real life validity of that with my high school English/Latin teacher.

 

[Weird Harold]

Please, Sir. May I have more?

(Oliver Twist)

 

[cymbidia]

Today is (still, at least on the west coast, in the US) Saturday, June 9, 2001.

"Something will come of this. I hope it mayn't be human gore."
-- Barnaby Rudge

Charles Dickens died at Gad's Hill Place on this day in 1870.

 

[CRaZy]

Bah humbug!

 

[R Nitelight]

When the orphans start singing 'Food, Glorious Food'....

 

[Tabby432]

Barkis is willin'

 

[BrainyBeauty]

morninggirl took my favorite and WH and CRaZY took my two others. This leaves me with a good one from David Copperfield...

"Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show."

 

[Mischka]

"No, no. That's Barnaby Rudge, by the well known Dutch author Charles Dickens. With four Ms and a silent Q."

 

[Pyper]

LOL Mischka! Do you have the expurgated version?

 

[Mischka]

No, I don't believe I do. Sorry. But if I look through the stacks in the back, I just might unearth a copy of Ethel the Aardvark Goes Quantity Surveying.