Elise Winchell

“There occurred, infamous to relate, inundations of the sewer. At times, that stomach of civilization digested badly, the cess-pool flowed back into the throat of the city, and Paris got an after-taste of her own filth. These resemblances of the sewer to remorse had their good points; they were warnings; very badly accepted, however; the city waxed indignant at the audacity of its mire, and did not admit that the filth should return. Drive it out better.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“If you don’t look interested nobody’ll know you are.”
― Joan G. Robinson, When Marnie Was There

“I always think that if an animal likes you, it must mean that you're not a completely wicked person.”
― Budge Wilson, Before Green Gables

“We live in a sad society. Succeed - that is the advice which falls drop by drop from the overhanging corruption.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables