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
Charles Dickens quotes about
lying views dying
Can I view thee panting, lying On thy stomach, without sighing; Can I unmoved see thee dying On a log Expiring frog!
inspirational reason staying
You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.
purple rags doe
Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.
this-life
And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.
bored bored-to-death bleak-house
And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.
beautiful dream childhood
the dreams of childhood - it's airy fables, its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond; so good to be believed in once, so good to be remembered when outgrown...
law evil doers
And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.
character interesting grind
The cramped monotony of my existence grinds me away by the grain.
enemy interesting-characters fellows
Yes. He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own.
sex surprising animosity
Your sex have such a surprising animosity against one another, when you do differ.
giving tea cups
My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.
lying light giving
He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count 'em up: what then? The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.
friendship please
Friendship? Yes Please.
feelings littles strange
Spite is a little word, but it represents as strange a jumble of feelings and compound of discords, as any polysyllable in the language.