Charles Dickens Quotes
You should know," said Estella. "I am what you have made me. Take all the praise, take all the blame; take all the success, take all the failure; in short, take me.
Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. Vol. 3, Chapman and Hall, 1861, p. 33.
The president was a bachelor and was constantly being chided for that. Some ladies came to the White House and criticized the fact that he "had no lady in the house:"
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.