George Bernard Shaw on Charles Dickens

“One of the greatest books ever written in the English language was called Little Dorrit, and as soon as Englishmen realised that Little Dorrit was true there would be a revolution.”

“'''''Little Dorrit is a more seditious book than Das Kapital. All over Europe men and women are in prison for pamphlets and speeches which are to Little Dorrit'' as red pepper to dynamite. Fortunately for social evolution Governments never know where to strike.''' Barnacle and Stiltstalking were far too conceited to recognize their own portraits.”