Psychology Quote by Charles Dickens

“These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent, yet so vicious and base?…

— Mary Shelley

“the wicked. May Your mercies be aroused”

— Ray Looker

“Bah, bah!’ cried the old man petulantly. ‘Human nature is the same in all ages and countries. Every day—every city—produces some monstrous wickedness, secret…

— John William Polidori

“Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The Wit of Cheats, the Courage of a Whore, Are what ten thousand envy and adore: All, all look up, with reverential Awe, At…

— Alexander Pope

“It was clear that everything considered important and good was insignificant and repulsive, and that all this glamour and luxury hid the old well-known…

— Leo Tolstoy

“The London criminal is certainly a dull fellow. Look out of this window, Watson. See how the figures loom up, are dimly seen, and…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“But that was not all. He foresaw a time when men, exultant in the technique of homicide, would rage so hotly over the world…

— James Hilton

“It is at the family fireside, often under the shelter of the law itself, that the real tragedies of life are acted; in these…

— Émile Gaboriau

“Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasm or a hideous dream. The genius…

— William Shakespeare

“Who tarnishes, assaults, threatens, hates the spirit of man is guilty of crime.”

— Christina Stead

“The smug mask of virtue triumphant could be almost as horrible as the face of wickedness revealed.”

— Terry Pratchett