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
call friend wish
I wish you could make a friend of me, Lizzie. Do you think you could? I have no more of what they call character, my dear, than a canary-bird, but I know I am trustworthy.
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.
action black devoted fierce hatred looked standing wild
With a fierce action of her hand, as if she sprinkled hatred on the ground, and with it devoted those who were standing there to destruction, she looked up once at the black sky, and strode out into the wild night.
affection hypocrisy shining
With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.
affection
With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation out of the other.
blush bring cheek question
The question about everything was, would it bring a blush to the cheek of a young person?
aged object
You don't object to an aged parent, I hope?
good men sooner uniform work
We know, Mr. Weller -- we, who are men of the world -- that a good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later.
believe eyes full hope looking pray
Walter, she said, looking full upon him with her affectionate eyes, "like you, I hope for better things. I will pray for them, and believe that they will arrive.
delivery hot improved muffin punctual united
United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin and Crumpet and Punctual Delivery Company.
eyes mention mr opening point positively standing tiptoe
There is no limitation, there is positively no limitation' - opening his eyes wide, and standing on tiptoe - 'in point of expense! I have orders, sir, to put on my whole establishment of mutes; and mutes come very dear, Mr Pecksniff; not to mention t
master private says teach
We've got a private master comes to teach us at home, but we ain't proud, because ma says it's sinful.
brought require therefore
Therefore I do require it, which I makes confession, to be brought reg'lar and draw'd mild.
opportunity men may
Time has been lost and opportunity thrown away, but I am yet a young man, and may retrieve it.