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
couple hands people
It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.
winter darkness scrooge
Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.
love saws pausing
She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph. I don't know what she was, anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted. I was swallowed up in an abyss of love in an instant. There was no pausing on the brink, no looking down, or looking back. I was gone, headlong, before I had sense to say a word to her.
commitment ifs
He did each single thing as if he did nothing else.
art block food
To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to forget breakfast instantly. It was agreeable too - it really was - to see him cut it off so smooth and juicy. There was nothing savage in the act, although the knife was large and keen; it was a piece of art, high art; there was delicacy of touch, clearness of tone, skilful handling of the subject, fine shading. It was the triumph of mind over matter; quite.
christmas new-year years
A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to the world!
drinking champagne fine-wine
Champagne is one of the elegant extras in life.
change begets
Change begets change.
good-friend trying disability
Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason
heart faithful world
He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart.
thinking hiking feet-and-walking
If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish.
air long joy
He was consious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares, long, long, forgotten.
blessing god-bless bless
God bless us, every one!
liberty lasts fraternity
Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!