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
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!
class two people
Mr Jarndyce, and prevented his going any farther, when he had remarked that there were two classes of charitable people: one, the people who did a little and made a great deal of noise; the other, the people who did a great deal and made no noise at all.
love creativity differences
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
dream cities soul
You have been the last dream of my soul.