Robert L. Mack > Quotes

“and all I have to remark is, damn the pies!”
― Robert L. Mack, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

“Aid me Heaven,’ she cried, ‘in the adoption of some means of action on the occasion. Is there anyone with whom I dare advise?”
― Robert L. Mack, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

“But genius is not only a blight and a desolation to its possessor, but it is so to all who are bound to the gifted being by the ties of fond affection. It brings with it that unhappy restlessness of intellect which is ever straining after the unattainable, and which is never content to know the end and ultimatum of earthly hopes and wishes; no, the whole life of such persons is spent in one long struggle for a fancied happiness, which like the ignis-fatuus of the swamp* glitters but to betray those who trust to its delusive and flickering beams.”
― Robert L. Mack, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

“hypocrisy never, to my mind, wears so disgusting a garb as when it attires itself in the outward show of religion.”
― Robert L. Mack, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street