Charles Dickens Quotes
I don't know what to do!" cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath; and making a perfect Laocoön of himself with his stockings. "I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to every-body! A happy New Year to all the world! Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!
Dickens, Charles. A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. Chapman & Hall, 1843, p. 147.
Although a member of the same party, Thatcher was his implacable enemy. When he had been the sitting Conservative Prime Minister, Thatcher hade led a successful movement to have him unseated by the party. In the British system even though the voters had elected a party with its candidate for Prime Minister, the winning party can change the Prime Minister at any time. Although this is not usual, this is what happened to Heath. After serving three terms, Thatcher herself was unseated by a Conservative Party faction led by John Major, and Heath expressed his emotion at the news. Heath had so despised Thatcher that he refused to serve in any way in her cabinet, unusual in the British system where former Prime Ministers often serve in Parliament and later may serve as cabinet ministers to another prime minister.
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.
