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
daughter world ifs
I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disinterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her.
bearing outward
A Being, erect upon two legs, and bearing all the outward semblance of a man, and not of a monster.
manners tricks
Oh! I know their tricks and their manners.
lays
The bearings of this observation lays in the application on it.
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.
friendly leg usual
A friendly swarry, consisting of a boiled leg of mutton with the usual trimmings.
wicked
Say, like those wicked Turks, there is no What's-his-name but Thingummy, and What-you-may-call-it is his prophet!
affection consciousness deepest deserted eyes others possess power regard silent sympathy turned wealth
A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away--the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us--is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.
express gentleman grain hide man principle since true
. . . it is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner. He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.
bottom brought depths forced himself knows man men raging rest striking till time within
No man knows till the time comes, what depths are within him. To some men it never comes; let them rest and be thankful! To me, you brought it; on me, you forced it; and the bottom of this raging sea, striking himself upon the breast, ""has been heaved up ever since.
hope human
Something will come of this. I hope it mayn't be human gore.
christmas ghost
I am the Ghost of Christmas Present, said the Spirit. ""Look upon me!
bank educating left natives
Educating the natives of Borrioboola-Gha, on the left bank of the Niger.
bless christmas god good hearts men open pleasant seem time women
I have always thought of Christmas as a good time; a kind, forgiving, generous, pleasant time; a time when men and women seem to open their hearts freely, and so I say, God bless Christmas!