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Det er overstået, og det kan ikke gøres om, og det er da en slags trøst. Siger de i Tyrkiet, når de hugger hovedet af den forkerte mand.
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En mand, som ikke kan betale, får en anden, som ikke kan betale, til at stille sikkerhed, for at han skal betale.
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Fandtes der ingen onde mennesker, fandtes der heller ikke gode advokater.
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Han ville være et smukt lig.
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Hemmelighedsfuld, selvtilfreds og ensom som en østers.
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Her er rettesnoren for forretningsopgørelser: snyd andre, for de ville snyde dig, hvis de kunne. Det er den sande regel for forretninger.
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Køer er min lidenskab. Jeg har altid sukket efter at trække mig tilbage til en svejsisk gård og leve helt omgivet af køer. Og porcelæn.
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A boy's story is the best that is ever told.
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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self..
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A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
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A person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay.
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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness.
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Did it ever strike you on such a morning as this that drowning would be happiness and peace?
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Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
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Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
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Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts.
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He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.
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He would make a lovely corpse..
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Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
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Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.
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I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
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I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.
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I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.
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If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.
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It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
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Bleak House
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Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.
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Lord, keep my memory green.
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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
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Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!
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Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
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There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
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With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.
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