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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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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Money and goods are certainly the best of references.
~ 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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Death is Nature’s remedy for all things, and why not Legislation’s?
~ Charles Dickens

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Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule.
~ Charles Dickens

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We must scrunch or be scrunched.
~ Charles Dickens

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Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.
~ Charles Dickens

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