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

"'"what's the use of fretting and pining about it? That won't bring it back, sir, I can tell you. After all, sir, you can't do better than grin and bear it, you know, which is the out and outest policy on all these here occasions, you know,'"

"so here's the toast—It's to the very cunning fox who laid a trap for another, and caught his own tail in it!"

"a rather masculine-looking specimen of the fair sex"

"the light of early dawn had already found its way through the windows of the church, and was making everything within it dimly visible. Todd recoiled at this. He and daylight were decidedly not upon good terms with each other by any means."

"'When I gets among the old trees and sees the branches a waving about, and hear the wind a moaning among 'em, it makes me think as there ain't a great deal in this world as is worth the bothering about, you see, sir; and least of all is it worthwhile doing anything that ain't the right thing."'

"'"this here is a sort of place that makes a man think; and always when I am in a quiet place like this, with the beautiful trees all about me, and the little birds a singing, and the frogs a croaking, it makes me think of things that I don't always think of, and of those as has passed away like spirits, and as we may meet in t'other world nor this, sir."

"Making the most hideous faces, just for the fun of the thing,"

"'you can drink it; but having some respect, from old companionship, for my inside, I decline it.'"

"'From this day I abandon all other objects and pursuits, and devote myself to that task alone."'

"'it cannot be anything very serious, you know, as all our dear friends are well. Anything falls light in comparison with the health and happiness of those whom we love."'