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
sadness faces brightness
Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history.
daughter bravery moral
My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic bravery is flight.
dark sky clouds
It was very dark; but in the murky sky there were masses of cloud which shone with a lurid light, like monstrous heaps of copper that had been heated in a furnace, and were growing cold.
funny morning self
All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his utmost, in self defence, as if a famine were expected to set in before breakfast-time to-morrow morning, and it had become high time to assert the first law of nature.
business soul prosperity
Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.
ideas house stories
She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea.
literature civility
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
life strong truth
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
country easy walks
It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.
ocean men hands
But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. Business!' cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The deals of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!
words-of-wisdom speech earnest
A word in earnest is as good as a speech.
may oppression begets
Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.
lying deceit literature
Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.
world surprise enough
I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything