Quote by David Lodge Download Open image ““He hugs the thought to himself with guilty glee.”” — David Lodge ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“He felt himself smile. He felt like something warm had spilled in his heart.” — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“Great, I couldn’t even have a self-pitying moment without his awesomeness ruining it and making me feel guilty.” — Natalie Carlisle Copy Share Image
“Shame I do feel. And I know there is something all wrong about me—believe me. Sometimes I shock myself.” — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“Oh, yes, he’d spent a good portion of his day in self-pity. And now? Now he felt shame.” — Cathy Maxwell Copy Share Image
“She closed her eyes, memorizing how warm, how safe, how exhilarating it felt to be embraced by him. She breathed him in as guilt… — Melanie Dickerson Copy Share Image
“feeling suddenly embarrassed and looking, in consequence, defiant.” — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“The days after that, I felt so many different things, sad, angry. Guilty, but for the mostly just numb, like part of me was… — Alex Flinn Copy Share Image
“Only afterward did the guilt set in--the guilt that for a few minutes he let himself stop feeling guilty.” — Tiffany Reisz Copy Share Image
“Pity. What a useless emotion when you don't act on it. Pity is supposed to trigger compassion.” — Lish McBride Copy Share Image
“Guilt is a useless emotion. It cuts you off at the knees and offers nothing in return.” — Barbara Nickless Copy Share Image
Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria. — David Lodge Copy Share Image
“We’re a bundle of incompatible parts, and we make up stories about ourselves to disguise the fact. The mental unity of the individual is… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
“perhaps it will I said perhaps it will be wonderful perhaps even though it won't be like you think perhaps that won't matter perhaps” — David Lodge Copy Share Image
“So they stood upon the shores of Faith and felt the old dogmas and certainties ebbing away rapidly under their feet and between their… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
Jogging, I believe they call it. It seems to be an epidemic psychological illness afflicting Americans these days. A form of masochism, like the… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
“Cica in fiecare grasan se afla cate-un slabanog care se lupta sa iasa la lumina, iar eu unul ii aud strigatele inabusite ori de… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
“When does a novel begin? The question is almost as difficult to answer as the question, when does the human embryo become a person? ” — David Lodge Copy Share Image
It was Adam Appleby's misfortune that at the moment of awakening from sleep his consciousness was immediately flooded with everything he least wanted to… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
“It was said that the view through the open window above the urinal, straight across the Bay to the Silver Span, was the finest… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
“Our friends started life with too many beliefs -- the penalty of a Catholic upbringing. They were weighted down with beliefs, useless answers to… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round. — David Lodge Copy Share Image
