Who said “I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the…”?

“As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.”

“When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.”

“Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their wives.”

“As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.”

“In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.”

“Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!”

“Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.”

“If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.”

“Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.”

“It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.”

“Minerva House was ''a finishing establishment for young ladies,'' where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.”