"So the case stands, and under all..." - Quote by Charles Dickens

“Flora, always tall, had grown to be very broad too, and short of breath; but that was not much. Flora, whom he had left a lily, had become a peony; but that was not much. Flora, who had seemed enchanting in all she said and thought, was diffuse and silly. That was much. Flora, who had been spoiled and artless long ago, was determined to be spoiled and artless now. That was a fatal blow.”

“Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means.”

“Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.”

“The story of the human race is war. Except for brief and precarious interludes there has never been peace in the world; and long before history began murderous strife was universal and unending.”

“We attack not only to hurt someone, to defeat him, but perhaps also simply to become conscious of our own strength.”

“You know how cunningly mankind is planned:We have one loving and one hating hand.The loving's made to hold each other like,While with the hating other hand we strike.”

“People buy their necessities in shops and have to pay dearly for them because they have to assist in paying for what is also on sale there but only rarely finds purchasers: the luxury and amusement goods. So it is that luxury continually imposes a tax on the simple people who have to do without it.”

“The workingmen have been exploited all the way up and down the line by employers, landlords, everybody.”

“We're not a socialist country, because the socialists believe in government ownership in the means of production, but the fascists believe that the government should have private ownership and the politicians should tell people how to run the businesses. So that's the route we seem to be going.”