Ethics Quote by Kate Atkinson

“The trouble with having a conscience, she said to herself, is that it never sleeps.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

“She wondered if she was in the midst of an anecdote that, for reasons of proximity, she was not yet able to perceive.”

— Carrie Fisher

“Who knows how great are the secret pangs of conscience?”

— Publius Syrus

“She was very easy to please, because she took joy in the smallest things, but exacting, too, because that small thing must be authentic,…

— Peter Heller

“The strange thing on looking back was the purity, the integrity of her feeling for Sally. It was not like one's feeling for a…

— Virginia Woolf

“But as always, the distance between them gave way to a need to be closer.”

— Galt Niederhoffer

“When had she moved so close? Her brain screamed at her to back away. She would regret this. She already regretted this.”

— Laura Oliva

“And she leaned back in the corner, to indulge her murmurs, or to reason them away; probably a little of both—such being the commonest…

— Jane Austen

“If ever he had harboured a conscience in his tough narrow breast he had by now dug out and flung away the awkward thing…

— Mervyn Peake

“She did not want conversation or company, just the presence of other people; she hoped the background drone of their lives would fill the…

— Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson

“How was one to lasso her mind, and tether it to this minute, unimportant spot?”

— Virginia Woolf

“The world seemed somehow different when one was lying down. Darker, more dangerous ... And in that moment, as he slowly closed the distance…

— Julia Quinn