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 pockets december
Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets.
men improvement improving
Man cannot really improve himself without improving others.
men innocent-man may
Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him.
christmas men feelings
Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recurrence of Christmas.
war men long
Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after those who worked the desolation are but atoms of earth themselves.
love sacrifice men
Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.
fashion men literature
Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
grief moving men
Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair. It is a true tale of grief and trial, and sorrow, young man," returned Mr. Brownlow, "and such tales usually are; if it were one of unmixed joy and happiness, it would be very brief.
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.
brother men endurance
The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.
men society faults
A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.
cheer character men
In truth, no men on earth can cheer like Englishmen, who do so rally one another's blood and spirit when they cheer in earnest, that the stir is like the rush of their whole history, with all its standards waving at once, from Saxon Alfred's downwards.
men listening wish
Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.