Quote by Charles Dickens Download Open image ““There was a moral infection of clap-trap in him.”” — Charles Dickens ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“…I came to consider betrayal a moral violation of another's humanity—akin to torture.” — Sandra Lee Dennis Copy Share Image
“I hurled the slipper at him, not caring if I caused his decapitation. (I did not.)” — Catherine Gilbert Murdock Copy Share Image
“It stands to reason that he who would cure a moral ailment must be practically acquainted with it in all its bearings.” — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“Whistling. The Human was whistling to himself, off-key and wretched. Whistling! Like he hadn’t a care or a clue about the poverty and decay… — S.G. Night Copy Share Image
“What horrifying torture this poor man must have endured. Out of a wise man they have made a miserable bundle of flesh and bones.” — Rafik Schami Copy Share Image
“Who was there to soothe him as life’s rug was snatched from under his sleeping feet?” — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“The situation suddenly felt absurd, and he had to control the urge to laugh out loud, the sheer folly of the midnight escapade catching… — Paul Fraser Collard Copy Share Image
“..he had trampled her poor, pining heart, and the wound was still raw, even these many years later.” — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
“He talked to people and fooled them into liking him, trusting him. He talked to them while he was killing them, torturing and turning… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“He said it with enough humor and kindness that it chafed. How would they react if they knew the things she’d done? What would… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“The moral man does something, and when no one responds he rolls up his sleeves and uses force.” — Laotzu Copy Share Image
“All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money! An obliging stranger, under pretence of compactly… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly settle in my mind is, that the end will absolutely come. I hold her hand in mine, I hold her heart in mine, I see her love for me, alive in all its strength. I cannot… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
“The suspense: the fearful, acute suspense: of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance; the racking thoughts that crowd upon the mind, and make the heart beat violently, and the breath come thick, by the force of the images they conjure up before it; the desperate anxiety to be doing something… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
“Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“evening, they began to think that although he could never hope to be an Englishman, still it would be hard to visit that affliction… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Besides which, all that I could have said of the Story to any purpose, I had endeavoured to say in it.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The wheels rolled on, and rolled down by the Monument, and by the Tower; and by the Docks; down by Ratcliffe, and by Rotherhithe;… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The three customers pulled off their hats to Madame Defarge, with three flourishes. She acknowledged their homage by bending her head, and giving them… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
