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
law people world
It is a pleasant world we live in, sir, a very pleasant world. There are bad people in it, Mr. Richard, but if there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
exercise men sight
Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.
children wife desire
If Husain (as) had fought to quench his worldly desires…then I do not understand why his sister, wife, and children accompanied him. It stands to reason therefore, that he sacrificed purely for Islam.
fall dark night
Other sound than the owl's voice there was none, save the falling of a fountain into its stone basin; for, it was one of those dark nights that hold their breath by the hour together, and then heave a long low sigh, and hold their breath again.
words-of-wisdom classic trifles
Trifles make the sum of life.
procrastination thieves classic
Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.
sorrow despair prodigious
There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.
giving joy cry
Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy.
beef may potatoes
You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!
baby answers world
It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
art pain two
There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
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.