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
opportunity men may
Time has been lost and opportunity thrown away, but I am yet a young man, and may retrieve it.
men innocent-man may
Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him.
evil may lessons
I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil.
eye ems may
Rich folks may ride on camels, but it ain't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye.
knowing psychology may
Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.
children kissing may
Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?" It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words. The child, who was nearest to him, told them afterwards, and told her grandchildren when she was a handsome old lady, that she heard him say, "A life you love.
beef may potatoes
You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!
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?
may oppression begets
Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.
quality contentment may
It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have.
great-expectations may done
But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
heart heaven may
[She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads.
love ears may
If I may so express it, I was steeped in Dora. I was not merely over head and ears in love with her, but I was saturated through and through. Enough love might have been wrung out of me, metaphorically speaking, to drown anybody in; and yet there would have remained enough within me, and all over me, to pervade my entire existence.
issues may stones
And when it has got in; as one not finding what it seeks, whatever that may be, it wails and howls to issue forth again: and not content with stalking through the aisles, and gliding round and round the pillars, and tempting the deep organ, soars up to the roof, and strives to rend the rafters: then flings itself despairingly upon the stones below, and passes, muttering, into the vaults.