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.
absence business gone horse planet
In the absence of the planet Venus, who has gone on business to the Horse Guards.
christmas course missed spirits
It's Christmas Day! said Scrooge to himself. ""I haven't missed it. The Spirits have done it all in one night. They can do anything they like. Of course they can. Of course they can.
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
business rule true
Here's the rule for bargains: ''Do other men, for they would do you.'' That's the true business precept.
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.
childhood children founder good himself mighty
It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself
crown half
Half a crown in the bill, if you look at the waiter.
excess fall mere state
Minds, like bodies, will fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
literature stand
Literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.
belongs bring buy cast eyes grew idle meaning power true turning watched wealth weighed words
There is no wealth, she went on, turning paler as she watched him, while her eyes grew yet more lustrous in their earnestness, ""that could buy these words of me, and the meaning that belongs to them. Once cast away as idle breath, no wealth or power can bring them back. I mean them; I have weighed them; and I will be true to what I undertake.
oh
Oh Jaggerth, Jaggerth, Jaggerth! all otherth ith Cag-Maggerth, give me Jaggerth!
stand
She's the only sylph I ever saw, who could stand upon one leg, and play the tambourine on her other knee, like a sylph.
charles christmas dickens family hear keeping listening love memories special stage talk time tradition
In keeping the world of Charles Dickens alive, ... what I do on the stage is one thing. It's afterward that's the most special. I love to talk about Charles Dickens and hear about people's questions, or their memories of a special time or a family tradition of listening to 'A Christmas Carol.'