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
literature stand
Literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.
fashion men literature
Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
excess literature vices
Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
people literature may
May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
baby literature world
'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.
passion agriculture literature
Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.
inspirational heart literature
Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.
literature civility
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
lying deceit literature
Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.
literature potatoes poultry
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
heart literature emotion
There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.
funny people literature
Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.
literature made should
I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.
guarantees-that two literature
A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match.