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
flower eye scary
I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes.
pride scary house
I will die here where I have walked. And I will walk here, though I am in my grave. I will walk here until the pride of this house is humbled.
cutting garden weather
In fine weather the old gentelman is almost constantly in the garden; and when it is too wet to go into it, he will look out the window at it, by the hour together. He has always something to do there, and you will see him digging, and sweeping, and cutting, and planting, with manifest delight.
get-well flower recovery
It is when our budding hopes are nipped beyond recovery by some rough wind, that we are the most disposed to picture to ourselves what flowers they might have borne, if they had flourished . . .
faith men moral
When men are about to commit, or sanction the commission of some injustice, it is not uncommon for them to express pity for the object either of that or some parallel proceeding, and to feel themselves, at the time, quite virtuous and moral, and immensely superior to those who express no pity at all. This is a kind of upholding of faith above works, and is very comfortable.
christmas new-year holiday
The year end brings no greater pleasure then the opportunity to express to you season's greetings and good wishes. May your holidays and new year be filled with joy.
godmother good-things lost
Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?
hard-times facts want
Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.
heart world cricket
To have a cricket on the hearth is the luckiest thing in all the world!
class citizens degradation
The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes.... It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their 'betters' were derelict.
prison
Veels vithin veels, a prison in a prison.
two kind lawyer
Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses--a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness.
children men degrade
My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades.
forgiveness forgiving done
May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it.