Business Quote by Charles Kingsley

“He burned to appease the fierce longings of his heart before which everything else was idle and alien. He cared little that he was…

— James Joyce

“But struggling with these better feelings was pride,--the vice of the lowest and most debased creatures no less than of the high and self-assured.…

— Charles Dickens

“Since they were unable to liberate themselves from the old words and the fear, they prowled the streets and cast their angry shadows.”

— Aharon Appelfeld

“Mr. Suttree it is our understanding that at curfew rightly decreed by law and in that hour wherein night draws to its proper close…

— Cormac McCarthy

“Then, with the barricades complete, the posts assigned, the muskets loaded, the lookouts placed, alone in these fearful streets in which there were now…

— Victor Hugo

“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

“We would sneer sometimes at how pointless it all was, all those bourgeois souls wrapping themselves in luxury, isolating themselves from the raw edges…

— Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

“It was a hard life, a life of poverty, of incessant struggle, of toil ill paid, of disappointment, but Cervantes carried within himself the…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“With heart at rest I climbed the citadel's Steep height, and saw the city as from a tower, Hospital, brothel, prison, and such hells,…

— Charles Baudelaire

“Here was the heart of dread. It was not fearsome. It was fetid, noxious, hopeless. A deep and exhausting misery, a crevasse so bottomless…

— Laura Tillman

“They said of him, about the city that night, that it was the peacefullest man's face ever beheld there. Many added that he looked…

— Charles Dickens

“[T]hey feel no shame that they themselves are evil amid the things they praise as good. They are more pained if their villa is…

— Augustine of Hippo