"A modest ring at the bell at..." - Quote by Charles Dickens

“I had seen the damp lying on the outside of my little window, as if some goblin had been crying there all night, and using the window for a pocket-handkerchief.”

“A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.”

“We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?”

“... when the locked door opens, and there comes in a young woman, deadly pale, and with long fair hair, who glides to the fire, and sits down in the chair we have left there, wringing her hands.”

“[He] may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is an idiot.”

“All that glitters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life has sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold Had you been as wise as bold, Your in limbs, in judgment old, Your answer had not been in'scroll'd Fare you well: your suit is cold.' Cold, indeed, and labour lost: Then, farewell, heat and welcome, frost!”

“Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.”

“Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.”

“You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours.”