"An honest tale speeds best being plainly..." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.”

“A pox o’ your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!”

“Two may keep counsel putting one away!”

“Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man.”

“No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.”

“Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.”

“If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.”

“Private, accidental, confidential conversation breeds thought. Clubs produce oftener words.”

“I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems indulgent or overly practiced. I have the urge to cut the book by fifty pages or so, possessed as I am with a keener appreciation for brevity.”