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
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.
stranger retiring pauses
Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.
brave hold
O you will let me hold your brave hand, stranger?
best club
I think . . . that it is the best club in London.
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.
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.
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.
came ecstasy magic pint
It came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort.
blood liquid regular
I think it's liquid aggravation that circulates through his veins, and not regular blood
childhood children founder good himself mighty
It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself
affect almost along cursed dead hard haunt helping mind saying state struck towards turning wish woman
Lizzie! I never thought before, that there was a woman in the world who could affect me so much by saying so little. But don't be hard in your construction of me. You don't know what my state of mind towards you is. You don't know how you haunt me and bewilder me. You don't know how the cursed carelessness that is over-officious in helping me at every other turning of my life, WON'T help me here. You have struck it dead, I think, and I sometimes almost wish you had struck me dead along with it.
saying soul
Look here. Upon my soul you mustn't come into the place saying you want to know, you know.
literature stand
Literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.