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
rain dust tears
One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of earth.
apples blazing bowl bubbling burned fingers fire game great hissing hot huge jolly mighty ordinary perfectly rich sat smaller tired
When they were all tired of blind-man's buff, there was a great game at snap-dragon, and when fingers enough were burned with that, and all the raisins were gone, they sat down by the huge fire of blazing lags to a substantial supper, and a mighty bowl of wassail, something smaller than an ordinary wash-house copper, in which the hot apples were hissing and bubbling with a rich look, and a jolly sound, that were perfectly irresistible.
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.
drink kiss lips
Drink with me, my dear, said Mr. Weller. "Put your lips to this here tumbler, and then I can kiss you by deputy.
cheerfulness contentment great looks youthful
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are fatuous preservers of youthful looks
taxes true truer
It was as true as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them.
frequently hundred
As she frequently remarked when she made any such mistake, it would be all the same a hundred years hence.
affections best however link purest
Our affections are our consolation and comfort; and memory, however sad, is the best and purest link between this world and a better
lighthouse man quiet situation took
Anythin' for a quiet life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse
burdens useless worth
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
tough
He's tough, ma'am, tough, is J. B. Tough and devilish sly!
dictionary eyes folding idiots leaning letter slightly smoking speaking word
Then idiots talk, said Eugene, leaning back, folding his arms, smoking with his eyes shut, and speaking slightly through his nose, ""of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy.
blessings man men past present reflect
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some
oh
Oh Sammy, Sammy, vy worn't there a alleybi!