Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.
More Quotes by Charles Dickens
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.
Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.