Dickens writes that one of his characters, "listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business.

Marie
- Franz … Yine de orospunun biriyim işte ben! Bıçaklayabilirim kendimi! Ah! Ne Dünya! Herkesin
canı cehenneme, erkek, dişi!

MARIE [Alone, after apause.]
Whata bitch I am. I could stab myself. - Oh, what a world! Everything goes to hell anyhow, man and woman alike.

He adored competing but didn't want you to know he'd ever worked at it.

Ease is the sign of grace in everything.

Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without thought.