Charles Dickens Quotes


Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.


Citations

Dickens, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Chapman and Hall, 1837, p. 201.

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Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
  • Born: February 7, 1812
  • Died: June 9, 1870
  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Writer

Charles John Huffam Dickens FRSA was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today.