No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!

The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

I'm not a psychopath, I'm a fully functioning sociopath. Do your research.

To all the world he was the man of violence, half animal and half demon; but to her he always remained the little wilful boy of her own girlhood, the child who had clung to her hand. Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.

The approach to the offices of Girdlestone and Co. was not a very dignified one, nor would the uninitiated who traversed it form any conception of the commercial prosperity of the firm in question.

I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.

I feel that there is reason lurking in you somewhere, so we will patiently grope round for it.