It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.
- Source
- A Tale of Two Cities, Book 3, ch. 15, 1859
- Written
- 1859
About this quotation
These are the final words of the novel, imagined as the thoughts of Sydney Carton as he goes to the guillotine in the place of another man. Dickens gives them as what Carton might have said, not as spoken aloud.