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
self-confidence world conquer
The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour.
funny death witty
He would make a lovely corpse.
world surprise enough
I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything
children sea play
There is nothing--no, nothing--innocent or good, that dies and is forgotten; let us hold to that faith or none. An infant, a prattling child, dying in the cradle, will live again in the better thoughts of those that loved it, and play its part through them in the redeeming actions of the world, though its body be burnt to ashes or drowned in the deep sea.
trust honesty business
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
love powerful disappointment
Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries.
literature potatoes poultry
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
morning light long-ago
I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.
people everyday passing-away
You are too young to know how the world changes everyday,' said Mrs Creakle, 'and how the people in it pass away. But we all have to learn it, David; some of us when we are young, some of us when we are old, some of us at all times in our lives.
passion hunting breasts
There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.
past scrooge three
I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.
romantic-love expectations promise
I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
good-morning beauty nature
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
children parent world
For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.