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
sincere substitutes ardent
There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.
art philosophy ideas
We all draw a little and compose a little, and none of us have any idea of time or money.
book language marley
Old Marley was dead as a doornail... The wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.
people next cleanliness
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
A smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing.
stars great-expectations property
My guiding star always is, Get hold of portable property.
hard-times roots facts
Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.
grief broken bones
Grief never mended no broken bones.
reflection sheep mind
I could not help wondering in my own mind....how it came to pass that our joints of meat were of such extraordinary shapes - and whether our butcher contracted for all the deformed sheep that came into the world; but I kept my reflections to myself.
wine men envy
The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution.
wind east now-and-then
The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.
christmas happy-holidays forgiving
I have always thought of Christmas time... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.
men fats resignation
A man must take the fat with the lean.
men views
A man ain't got no right to be a public man, unless he meets the public views.