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
burdens useless worth
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
burden useless
No one is useless in this world, retorted the Secretary, ""who lightens the burden of it for any one else.
anyone burden english-novelist useless
No one is useless in the world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else.
love eye burdens-of-life
There lives at least one being who can never change-one being who would be content to devote his whole existence to your happiness-who lives but in your eyes-who breathes but in your smiles-who bears the heavy burden of life itself only for you.
heaven suits burden
Heaven suits the back to the burden.
dear exactly harsh legal replied word
Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir, replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word indeed. It's a legal fiction, my dear sir, nothing more.
meant men
What is meant by a "knowledge of the world" is simply, an acquaintance with the infirmities of men
cannot double extra gentlemen paying single sleep
We cannot have single gentlemen to come into this establishment and sleep like double gentlemen without paying extra for it . . .
charity learn matter worth
Vether it's worth goin' through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said ven he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o' taste.
furnished hall instructed languages living mr provided youth
At Mr Wackford Squeers's Academy, Dotheboys Hall . . . Youth are boarded, clothed, booked, furnished with pocket-money, provided with all necessaries, instructed in all languages living and dead.
confidence government miserable near quit resources saw since thoughts wretched
Yes! you are the ruin--the ruin--the ruin--of me. I have no resources in myself, I have no confidence in myself, I have no government of myself when you are near me or in my thoughts. And you are always in my thoughts now. I have never been quit of you since I first saw you. Oh, that was a wretched day for me! That was a wretched, miserable day!
english-novelist
This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.
What a world of gammon and spinnage it is, though, ain't it!
ghastly hands slowly waist
Uriah, with his long hands slowly twining over one another, made a ghastly writhe from the waist upwards.