There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood. – Charles Dickens
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons. – Charles Dickens

There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood. – Charles Dickens
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons. – Charles Dickens
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. – Charles Dickens
How many young men, in all previous times of unprecedented steadiness, had turned suddenly wild and wicked for the same reason, and, in an ecstasy of unrequited love, taken to wrench off door-knockers, and invert the boxes of rheumatic watchmen! – Charles Dickens
I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire of societies old and new of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by Gods Will, united in spirit and in aim. – Queen Elizabeth II