Charles Dickens Quotes
Come, let's be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with.
Dickens, Charles. The Old Curiosity Shop. Chapman and Hall, 1841.
He was defying the Italian Federal Laws and the position of the Vatican with respect to gay marriage. The 16 couples were wed abroad as gay marriage was then illegal in Italy. However, he officially recognized the marriages, something which the conservatives in the Federal government had been able to avoid then. The photo is the mayor congratulating one of the couples he registered.
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.