Character Quote by Charles Dickens

“This recurred to his mind unceasingly. To this celestial kindness he opposed pride, which is the fortress of evil within us. He was indistinctly…

— Victor Hugo

“Such is the sleight of hand by which we juggle with ourselves, and change our very weaknesses into stanch and most magnanimous virtues!”

— Charles Dickens

“It is a human characteristic, which has been richly exploited in every era, that while hope of survival is still alive in a man,…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“there are quiet victories and struggles, great sacrifices of self, and noble acts of heroism, in it - even in many of its apparent…

— Charles Dickens

“We must all make the mental leap from the pious histories we have read in the martyrologies to the reality of living flesh and…

— Michael D. O'Brien

“If anyone gets intoxicated with his knowledge when he looks beneath him, let him turn his eyes upward toward past ages, and he will…

— Michel de Montaigne

“His soul swayed in a vertigo of moral indecision. He had only to snap the thread of a rash vow made to a villainous…

— G.K. Chesterton

“O God, forgive me - I am a proud, lustful, greedy man. I have loved authority too much. These people are martyrs - protecting…

— Graham Greene

“And if he were really to do good he would have needed in addition to his principles, a heart capable of violating them -…

— Boris Pasternak

“A man may indeed be an honest man; but the folly of sacrifice, of virginity, of devotedness, of martyrdom, arises only from faith in…

— Emile Bougaud

“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

“He could be boastful in a way pleasantly at odds with his native fatalism, and his youthful stubbornness had a way of ameliorating into…

— Dan Lopez