If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
~ 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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No one is useless in this world, who lightens the burden of it for any one else.
~ Charles Dickens

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Money and goods are certainly the best of references.
~ Charles Dickens

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The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself.
~ 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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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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It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
~ Charles Dickens

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Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
~ 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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