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
born others people please thinks
Some people . . . may be Rooshans, and others may be Prooshans; they are born so, and will please themselves. Them which is of other naturs thinks different.
arrived awful cannot clerk commanding enlighten grow interest itself plotting poison presents shabby solitary staircase turn whether
I am one by myself, one, said Mortimer, "high up an awful staircase commanding a burial-ground, and I have a whole clerk to myself, and he has nothing to do but look at the burial-ground, and what he will turn out when arrived at maturity, I cannot conceive. Whether, in that shabby rook's nest, he is always plotting wisdom, or plotting murder; whether he will grow up, after so much solitary brooding, to enlighten his fellow-creatures, or to poison them; is the only speck of interest that presents itself to my professional view.
cheerfulness earnest harmless humble increase shall stock till
I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.
boarding forever great holiday home ought school short
I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday - the longer, the better - from the great boarding school where we are forever working at our arithmetical slates, to take, and giv
calls hands thick
He calls the knaves, Jacks, this boy! . . . And what coarse hands he has! And what thick boots!
literary man
A literary man - with a wooden leg.
head king mistake putting trouble
The mistake was made of putting some of the trouble out of King Charles's head into my head.
appearance shall wife
You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer. Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.
bosom capital hang jewels repose
It was not a bosom to repose upon, but it was a capital bosom to hang jewels upon.
against besides dry fancy frequently ground mine palms squeeze
It was no fancy of mine about his hands, I observed; for he frequently ground the palms against each other as if to squeeze them dry and warm, besides often wiping them, in a stealthy way, on his pocket-handkerchief
christmas happy merry year
A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!
buried goes idiot stake work
If I could work my will, said Scrooge indignantly, ""every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!
almost knows man subject tiresome
The man who knows only one subject is almost as tiresome as the man who knows no subject.
london particular
This is a London particular . . . A fog, miss.