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
cutting men turkeys
It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's head off.
done lost
Nothing of what is nobly done is ever lost.
literature
We are so very 'umble.
art philosophy ideas
We all draw a little and compose a little, and none of us have any idea of time or money.
book language marley
Old Marley was dead as a doornail... The wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.
people next cleanliness
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
oysters together poverty
Poverty and oysters always seem to go together.
A smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing.
stars great-expectations property
My guiding star always is, Get hold of portable property.
hard-times roots facts
Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.
impossible possibility treats
Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.
summer morning air
The appearance presented by the streets of London an hour before sunrise, on a summer's morning, is most striking even to the few whose unfortunate pursuits of pleasure, or scarcely less unfortunate pursuits of business, cause them to be well acquainted with the scene. There is an air of cold, solitary desolation about the noiseless streets which we are accustomed to see thronged at other times by a busy, eager crowd, and over the quiet, closely-shut buildings, which throughout the day are swarming with life and bustle, that is very impressive.
water listening erratic
The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake, you will find that his mental movements are erratic: they have no fixed centre and no definite object. His talk is like the water of a canal whose banks have given way, which rolls aimlessly hither and thither, without fulfilling any useful function, though it is the same water which was so helpful and serviceable, when it was confined within clearly marked limits by the restraining force of its earthy boundaries.
humorous eye men
There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant or practically humorous as that which supposes every man to be of equal value in its impartial eye, and the benefits of all laws to be equally attainable by all men, without the smallest reference to the furniture of their pockets.