Charles Dickens: almost as good as his chocolate quote
The brilliant fictional words of Charles Dickens will always of course come first in public attention.
His political words were pretty good too:
The brilliant fictional words of Charles Dickens will always of course come first in public attention.
His political words were pretty good too:
The electric communications quote (your social media link) is not actually a direct quotation of what Dickens said but a reworking of something quite near to it.
This page from the quote investigator website explains how the saying evolved.
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/04/27/did-charles-dickens-criticize-email-and-twitter/
The actual passage is from Dickens 'Household Words' Vol 14 Dec 16 1856.