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
christmas honor
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year.
age classical contain fashion garment less nor precisely prettier quite strictly wardrobe
His wardrobe was extensive--very extensive--not strictly classical perhaps, not quite new, nor did it contain any one garment made precisely after the fashion of any age or time, but everything was more or less spangled; and what can be prettier than spangles!
english-novelist man men past present reflect
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.
blessings man men past present reflect
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some
bring everywhere jail kinder laws turn wrong
Give us kinder laws to bring us back when we're a-going wrong and don't set Jail, Jail, Jail afore us everywhere we turn
eye favour popular prejudice runs
He had but one eye and the popular prejudice runs in favour of two.
crown half
Half a crown in the bill, if you look at the waiter.
art beforehand office public required whatever
Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving- how not to do it.
best deception momentary nor
There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears, said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones.
time
There is never enough time to do or say all the things that we would wish; The thing is to do as much as you can in the time that you have
daughter world ifs
I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disninterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her.
affect almost along cursed dead hard haunt helping mind saying state struck towards turning wish woman
Lizzie! I never thought before, that there was a woman in the world who could affect me so much by saying so little. But don't be hard in your construction of me. You don't know what my state of mind towards you is. You don't know how you haunt me and bewilder me. You don't know how the cursed carelessness that is over-officious in helping me at every other turning of my life, WON'T help me here. You have struck it dead, I think, and I sometimes almost wish you had struck me dead along with it.
saying soul
Look here. Upon my soul you mustn't come into the place saying you want to know, you know.
boy goes knows verb
C-l-e-a-n, clean, verb active, to make bright, to scour. W-i-n, win, d-e-r, der, winder, a casement. When the boy knows this out of the book, he goes and does it.