Famous Quotes | He is a wonderfully accomplished...
He is a wonderfully accomplished man—most extraordinarily accomplished—reads—hem—reads every novel that comes out; I mean every novel that—hem—that has any fashion in it, of course. The fact is, that he did find so much in the books he read, applicable to his own misfortunes, and did find himself in every respect so much like the heroes—because of course he is conscious of his own superiority, as we all are, and very naturally—that he took to scorning everything, and became a genius.
- Charles Dickens
Attribution: Charles Dickens (1812–1870), British novelist. Miss Knag in Nicholas Nickleby, ch. 18, p. 223 (1839). Miss Knag, a millener’s assistant, is speaking of her brother, Mr. Mortimer Knag, a stationer and keeper of a small circulating library.
Categories: Genius, Novels
