3 Charles Dickens Quotes on Irony

Charles Dickens quotes on irony

30. 'It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper,' said Mr. Bumble. 'So cry away.'

52. If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

157. Dickens attacked English institutions with a ferocity that has never since been approached. Yet he managed to do it without making himself hated, and, more than this, the very people he attacked have swallowed him so completely that he has become a national institution himself.