No one is useless in this world, who lightens the burden of it for any one else.
~ Charles Dickens

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The dignity of his office is never impaired by the absence of efforts on his part to maintain it.
~ Charles Dickens

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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.
~ Charles Dickens

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The civility which money will purchase is rarely extended to those who have none.
~ Charles Dickens

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It is strange with how little notice, good, bad, or indifferent, a man may live and die in London.
~ Charles Dickens

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The sea did what it liked, and what it liked was destruction. It thundered at the town, and thundered at the cliffs, and brought the coast down, madly.
~ Charles Dickens

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The time was to come, when that wine too would be spilled on the street-stones, and when the stain of it would be red upon many there.
~ Charles Dickens

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Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery.
~ Charles Dickens

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Wherever religion is resorted to as a strong drink, and as an escape from the dull, monotonous round of home, those of its ministers who pepper the highest will be the surest to please.
~ Charles Dickens

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La difficulté d’écrire l’anglais m’est extrêmement ennuyeuse. Ah, mon Dieu! si l’on pouvait toujours écrire cette belle langue de France!
~ Charles Dickens

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