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
opportunity men may
Time has been lost and opportunity thrown away, but I am yet a young man, and may retrieve it.
men innocent-man may
Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him.
evil may lessons
I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil.
eye ems may
Rich folks may ride on camels, but it ain't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye.
knowing psychology may
Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.
beef may potatoes
You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!
may oppression begets
Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.
heart heaven may
[She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads.
love ears may
If I may so express it, I was steeped in Dora. I was not merely over head and ears in love with her, but I was saturated through and through. Enough love might have been wrung out of me, metaphorically speaking, to drown anybody in; and yet there would have remained enough within me, and all over me, to pervade my entire existence.
christian father names
My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.
inspirational reason staying
You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.
men pockets december
Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets.
home expectations miserable
It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.
dog cat ducks
Meow says the cat ,quack says the duck , Bow wow wow says the dog ! Grrrr!