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
express gentleman grain hide man principle since true
. . . it is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner. He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.
words-of-wisdom said being-true
Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.
true-love heart men
My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.
business rule true
Here's the rule for bargains: ''Do other men, for they would do you.'' That's the true business precept.
belongs bring buy cast eyes grew idle meaning power true turning watched wealth weighed words
There is no wealth, she went on, turning paler as she watched him, while her eyes grew yet more lustrous in their earnestness, ""that could buy these words of me, and the meaning that belongs to them. Once cast away as idle breath, no wealth or power can bring them back. I mean them; I have weighed them; and I will be true to what I undertake.
appeared cast church days dial flight graveyard language last lights reflection shadow solemn truest village weeks whatever
In this way they went on, and on, and on--in the language of the story-books--until at last the village lights appeared before them, and the church spire cast a long reflection on the graveyard grass; as if it were a dial (alas, the truest in the world!) marking, whatever light shone out of Heaven, the flight of days and weeks and years, by some new shadow on that solemn ground.
taxes true truer
It was as true as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them.
among buried dead hardly hold lie living looking man sensation somewhere spirit stranger uses wild
It is a sensation not experienced by many mortals, said he, "to be looking into a churchyard on a wild windy night, and to feel that I no more hold a place among the living than these dead do, and even to know that I lie buried somewhere else, as they lie buried here. Nothing uses me to it. A spirit that was once a man could hardly feel stranger or lonelier, going unrecognized among mankind, than I feel.
cannot given good kinder left people regard whom
I think there cannot be kinder people in the world. There is nothing but good will left between me and a People for whom I have a real regard and to whom I would not willfully have given an offence.
describe infant language powerful
Language was not powerful enough to describe the infant phenomenon.
brave hold
O you will let me hold your brave hand, stranger?
english-novelist man men past present reflect
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.
blessings man men past present reflect
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some
bring cat dog natural thirst wish
. . . judiciously show a cat milk, if you wish her to thirst for it. Judiciously show a dog his natural prey, if you wish him to bring it down one day.