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.
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"I have been so beset, and so worried, and so torn by the anxiety of this new book, that I have been made ill by it."
"I have always been of the opinion that it is better to be happy than to be rich, and that it is better to be good than to be great."
"There are some things in the world that a man cannot know, and ought not to know, if he could."
"I am always hearing of the good old times. I wish to Heaven the good old times had never come back again."
"I have not the least belief in the present system of education for the poor, as it is conducted in England."
English novelist whose Oliver Twist (1838), A Christmas Carol (1843), and Bleak House (1852) made Victorian poverty inescapable for the British middle class. Closely associated with William Makepeace Thackeray (Vanity Fair rival and contemporary serial novelist) and George Eliot (later Victorian giant who built on Dickens's social-realism foundation). For an intellectual contrast, see Jeremy Bentham, founder of utilitarianism (1748-1832) — Mr. Gradgrind in Hard Times (1854) is a direct caricature of Bentham-style social calculation — 'Facts, sir, nothing but Facts!' is the most-cited literary attack on utilitarianism's reduction of human life to measurable units. Dickens's serialized social-novel form is itself a rebuke of utilitarian abstraction.
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