“I’s wicked I is. I’s mighty wicked; anyhow I can’t help it.”
“She still dotted her i’s with full circles and felt genuinely thankful for every sunny day. I believed more in dark clouds, in sharp dots, in needing proof in order to feel trust.”
“All my possessions for a moment of time. This was Queen Elizabeth I’s last words. Rest assured that he who has the longest time is the richest of this universe!”
“I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.”
“But of course, there's no rest for the wicked, which I certainly am; as I said, no rest for the wicked.”
“Mrs. Spencer said it was wicked of me to talk like that, but I didn’t mean to be wicked. It’s so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn’t it?”