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
brave hold
O you will let me hold your brave hand, stranger?
capital mushrooms presume
Not presume to dictate, but broiled fowl and mushrooms - capital thing!
change expect merely mrs returned
It's nothing, returned Mrs Chick. ""It's merely change of weather. We must expect change.
far hang wrong
Far better hang wrong fler than no fler.
head king mistake putting trouble
The mistake was made of putting some of the trouble out of King Charles's head into my head.
bread bright coming cry dear england english fine gentle hail iron rally rich round rulers runs shall sword tory
The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread / in Ireland, sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!
born oh
Oh gracious, why wasn't I born old and ugly?
flood miss rose straight table tears
Miss Bolo rose from the table considerably agitated, and went straight home, in a flood of tears and a Sedan chair.
affect almost along cursed dead hard haunt helping mind saying state struck towards turning wish woman
Lizzie! I never thought before, that there was a woman in the world who could affect me so much by saying so little. But don't be hard in your construction of me. You don't know what my state of mind towards you is. You don't know how you haunt me and bewilder me. You don't know how the cursed carelessness that is over-officious in helping me at every other turning of my life, WON'T help me here. You have struck it dead, I think, and I sometimes almost wish you had struck me dead along with it.
began contract debt ease great infallible quantity
So now, as an infallible way of making little ease great ease, I began to contract a quantity of debt.
comfort ingenious judgments legal machines motion numerous offices public torment torture
These sequestered nooks are the public offices of the legal profession, where writs are issued, judgments signed, declarations filed, and numerous other ingenious machines put in motion for the torture and torment of His Majesty's liege subjects, and the comfort and emolument of the practitioners of the law.
born others people please thinks
Some people . . . may be Rooshans, and others may be Prooshans; they are born so, and will please themselves. Them which is of other naturs thinks different.
happiness months propose
I should be happy, myself, to propose two months . . . but I have a partner, Mr. Jorkins.
business increase law
The business of the law is to increase the business of the law