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
regret hard-times long
There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.
hard-times roots facts
Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.
hard-times facts want
Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.
time secret-places hands
Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his Hands are mutes.
time littles twenties
Take a little timecount five-and-twenty,Tattycoram.
long wit long-time
Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.
girl boys hard-times
Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them.
opportunity men may
Time has been lost and opportunity thrown away, but I am yet a young man, and may retrieve it.
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!
sunday coats week
There is a Sunday conscience as well as a Sunday coat; and those who make religion a secondary concern put the coat and conscience carefully by to put on only once a week.