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
time secret-places hands
Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his Hands are mutes.
time littles twenties
Take a little timecount five-and-twenty,Tattycoram.
laughing waiting cry
Make them laugh, make them cry, make them wait.
people enemy
Some people are nobody's enemies but their own
littles cry you-again
-Why don't you cry again, you little wretch? -Because I'll never cry for you again.
eye thoughtful great-expectations
She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.
wise kind worst
Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.
children eye hands
If I may ride with you, Citizen Evremonde, will you let me hold your hand? I am not afraid, but I am little and weak, and it will give me more courage." As the patient eyes were lifted to his face, he saw a sudden doubt in them, and then astonishment. He pressed the work-worn, hunger-worn young fingers, and touched his lips. "Are you dying for him?" she whispered. "And his wife and child. Hush! Yes." "Oh, you will let me hold your brave hand, stranger?" "Hush! Yes, my poor sister; to the last.
echoes listening answers
I have sometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the footsteps that are coming by and by into our lives. "Jerry, say that my answer was, 'RECALLED TO LIFE.
bricks honest trade
Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to.
faces looks morrow
...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it
waiting devil ready
When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil chained -not shown- yet always ready.
want faces misery
I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconceivable--indescribable--my misery amazing.
finals parting
All partings foreshadow the great final one.