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
turns expected
things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up
comfortable plenty stationery
There was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery.
sad break-up breakup
We need never be ashamed of our tears.
angel shadow desire
The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.
goods
Money and goods are certainly the best of references.
lonely night sea
It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows listening for the thunder which they know will shortly break; when they recall dismal tales of hurricanes and earthquakes; and of lonely travellers on open plains, and lonely ships at sea, struck by lightning.
expectations people words-of-wisdom
So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
eye exercise cry
It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.
people words-of-wisdom facts
Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.
love writing ambition
To be allowed to call her "Dora", to write to her, to dote upon and worship her, to have reason to think that when she was with other people she was yet mindful of me, seemed to me the summit of human ambition - I am sure it was the summit of mine.
thinking words-of-wisdom done
At last, however, he began to think -- as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too . . .
people coats holiness
Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
land doubt trying
Satisfy yourself beyond all doubt that you are qualified for the course to which you now aspire.....and try to achieve something in your own land before you venture on a strange one.
military drinking and-love
The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making.