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
taken two expectations
I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.
passion hunting breasts
There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.
freedom butterfly deny
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.
time son boys
A boy's story is the best that is ever told.
friendship relationship goodbye
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
love night reality
I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carrying your image in my arms, I loved you madly.
love christmas education
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
romantic-love expectations promise
I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
gentleman
Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.
knowing odds mind
We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner.
literature made should
I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.
life moral existence
Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.
flower sleep eye
The flowers that sleep by night, opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation's mind, was everywhere, and all things owned its power.
phrases fit educated
I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing.