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
writing hair fire
Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing something and tearing it up...
life moral existence
Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.
winter darkness scrooge
Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.
couple hands people
It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.
humble science imagination
My imagination would never have served me as it has, but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention
inspirational time cities
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
law principles bleak-house
The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.
business men morality
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
integrity letters ethics
You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.
fall passion world
You fear the world too much,' she answered gently. 'All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off, one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not?
phrases uncertain temper
…a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper --a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.
inspirational children kids
It is no small thing, when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.
strong water juniors
There was a piece of ornamental water immediately below the parapet, on the other side, into which Mr. James Harthouse had a very strong inclination to pitch Mr. Thomas Gradgrind Junior.
god two forgive-me
I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.