Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickenswas an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 February 1812
people literature may
May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
past bores-you dragons
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
baby literature world
'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.
happiness law-of-attraction chains
We forge the chains we wear in life.
funny humorous men
Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.
brother men endurance
The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.
freedom butterfly liberty
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
inspirational strong home
Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.
halloween creativity ideas
An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
passion agriculture literature
Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.
motivational determination order
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
inspirational heart literature
Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.
love inspirational life
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
determination men order
I have been very fortunate in worldly matters; many men have worked much harder, and not succeeded half so well; but I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time, no matter how quickly its successor should come upon its heels, which I then formed.