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 reason staying
You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.
suffering income cost
Annual income is £ 20, the cost is 19, you will feel happiness. If annual income of £ 20, the cost is £ 20.6, you will see suffering
arrows flying listening
The aim of talk should be like the aim of a flying arrow -- to hit the mark; but to this end there must be a mark to hit, that is, there must be a listener.
exercise men sight
Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.
happiness law-of-attraction chains
We forge the chains we wear in life.
mother tombstone father
As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were long before the days of photographs), my first fancies regarding what they were like, were unreasonably derived from their tombstones. The shape of the letters on my father's, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair. From the character and turn of the inscription, "Also Georgiana Wife of the Above", I drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled and sickly.
wisdom heart awareness
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
suffering-pain expectations broken
I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.
love friendship relationship
Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.
gentleman
Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.
art children natural
Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.
respect men thinking
It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves
paris world made
What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world!
heart lips my-heart
I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart