I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
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.