Character Quote by Charles Dickens

We owed so much to Herbert's ever cheerful industry and readiness, that I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea of his…

— Charles Dickens

“He knew there were two kinds of truth in this world. The truth that was the unalterable bedrock of one's life and mission. And…

— Michael Connelly

“This ordinarily even-tempered man struck furiously at his heart like some fanatic at prayer, and, assailed by remorse not just for this mistake but…

— Philip Roth

“And yet—he thought—through all the generations of political extortion, it was not the looting bureaucrats who had taken the blame, but the chained industrialists,…

— Ayn Rand

he was trying to convince himself that he wasn't guilty.

— Walter Dean Myers

“Guilt was not a good look for him—it gave one unsightly lines. And now he felt bad for being rude to the housekeeper, as…

— Kady Cross

“A responsible man remained unflappable in the face of personal loss. He would wave away an affront...”

— Elliot West

“Yet it was Emerson who said that "I have never heard of a crime which I might not have committed.”

— Lewis E. Lawes

“Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going, a long time back. I said nothing. I'm one…

— Ray BradburyBradbury

“...he arrived late at the office, perceived that his doing so made no difference whatever to any one, and was filled with sudden exasperation…

— Edith Wharton

“He’d just been awarded his master’s degree, and he was more or less pure hearted and well intentioned; his actions and decisions were dictated…

— Grant Ginder

“Knowing he had done wrong, prepared to make amends, settle his business. Determined to return to Brokeland, open the doors wide to the angel…

— Michael Chabon