Charles Dickens Quotes About Genius

• Indeed the worthy housewife was of such a capricious nature, that she not only attained a higher pitch of genius than Macbeth, in respect of her ability to be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, loyal and neutral in an instant, but would sometimes ring the changes backwards and forwards on all possible moods and flights in one short quarter of an hour; performing, as it were, a kind of triple bob major on the peal of instruments in the female belfry, with a skilfulness and rapidity of execution that astonished all who heard her.

  Charles Dickens

  Wise, Character, Interesting

• Eccentricities of genius.

  Charles Dickens

  Genius, Eccentricity

  Pickwick Papers ch. 30 (1837)

• Never imitate the eccentricities of genius, but toil after it in its truer flights. They are not so easy to follow, but they lead to higher regions.

  Charles Dickens

  Toil, Genius, Flight

  Charles Dickens, Jenny Hartley (2012). “The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens”, p.71, Oxford University Press

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