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Charles Dickens

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There are only two styles of portrait painting: the serious and the smirk.


— Charles Dickens


#expression #portrait #serious #art

In journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier to go down hill than up


— Charles Dickens


#life

I thought her looking as she always does: superior in all respects to everyone around her


— Charles Dickens


#love

[T]he wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.


— Charles Dickens


#quotations #similes #well-worn-phrases #wisdom #simile

A horse is a quadruped, and quadruped's latin for beast, as everybody that's gone through grammar knows, or else what's the use in having grammars at all?


— Charles Dickens


#grammar

Aye, though he loved her from his soul with such a self denying love as woman seldom wins; he spoke from first to last of Martin.


— Charles Dickens


#lonliness #love #love

Our love had begun in folly, and ended in madness!


— Charles Dickens


#love #madness #love

And you, being a good man, can pass it as such, and forgive and pity the dreamer, and be lenient and encouraging when he wakes?" --Rick "Indeed I can. What am I but another dreamer, Rick?" --Guardian


— Charles Dickens


#forgiveness

You do not know what all around you see in Esther Summerson, how many hearts she touches and awakens, what sacred admiration and what love she wins. --Mr. Woodcourt


— Charles Dickens


#love

He has got his discharge, by G-! said the man. He had. But he had grown so like death in life, that they knew not when he died.


— Charles Dickens


#death






About Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens Quotes




Did you know about Charles Dickens?

Dickens was 45 and Ternan 18 when he made the decision which went strongly against Victorian convention to separate from his wife Catherine in 1858—divorce was still unthinkable for someone as famous as he was. The resulting story was the The Pickwick Papers with the final instalment selling 40000 copies. Dickens managed to avoid an appearance at the inquest to avoid disclosing that he had been travelling with Ternan and her mother which would have caused a scandal.

He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. His creative genius has been praised by fellow writers—from Leo Tolstoy to G. Born in Portsmouth England Dickens left school to work in a factory after his father was thrown into debtors' prison.

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