Charles Dickens Quotes
... when the locked door opens, and there comes in a young woman, deadly pale, and with long fair hair, who glides to the fire, and sits down in the chair we have left there, wringing her hands.
Dickens, Charles. "A Christmas Tree." Household Words, vol. 2, no. 39, 21 Dec. 1850, p. 293.
On the morning of August 4, 1974, hours before his resignation in disgrace, President Richard M. Nixon called the Senator to say good-bye.
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.