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
inspirational strong home
Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.
brother men endurance
The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.
funny humorous men
Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.
baby literature world
'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.
past bores-you dragons
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
people literature may
May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
giving joy cry
Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy.
sorrow despair prodigious
There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.
procrastination thieves classic
Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.
words-of-wisdom classic trifles
Trifles make the sum of life.
fall dark night
Other sound than the owl's voice there was none, save the falling of a fountain into its stone basin; for, it was one of those dark nights that hold their breath by the hour together, and then heave a long low sigh, and hold their breath again.
children wife desire
If Husain (as) had fought to quench his worldly desires…then I do not understand why his sister, wife, and children accompanied him. It stands to reason therefore, that he sacrificed purely for Islam.
law people world
It is a pleasant world we live in, sir, a very pleasant world. There are bad people in it, Mr. Richard, but if there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
knowing psychology may
Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.