Courtney’s Reviews > The String of Pearls: The Original Tale of Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street > Status Update

"the spirit that spoke of comfort, joy, and security to his heart and brain, was after all a false one."

"The fierce delight of a successful stroke of villany may for a time resemble happiness, but it is a resemblance as weak as that between the faint watery ray of a winter's sun and the full blaze of the god-like luminary in all the beauty of the vernal season."

"The sunshine of the heart was not a thing to last long in such a bosom as Sweeney Todd's. His was not that sweet and lasting hilarity of soul that can alone arise from a deep and sincere consciousness of right."

'"Mind though I am friends with you, I am still the uncompromising foe of all else in this place."'

"'Food for fishes, if fishes can live in the Thames'"

"'Viewing it in one way, my friends, it's a happy release, for she was a little touched in her intellect, poor thing,'"

"Todd's eyes gleamed like two coals of fire, and Mrs. Lovett was as pale as death itself."

"the strong eddying current that leaped and bubbled through the arch."

"Todd's nature was of that mad implacable character, that anything in the shape of opposition only made a wish a passion."

"'You who have sent so many from the world, will yourself go from it howling with fright.'"