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Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
Emily Brontë1818–1848Wuthering Heights (1847), Chapter XVIIIn context
- Enemies
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion.
Charlotte Brontë1816–1855Jane Eyre (1847), PrefaceIn context
- Religion
Remember, that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed. Every where I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.
Mary Shelley1797–1851Frankenstein (1818), Chapter XIn context
All, save I, were at rest or in enjoyment: I, like the arch-fiend, bore a hell within me; and, finding myself unsympathised with, wished to tear up the trees, spread havoc and destruction around me, and then to have sat down and enjoyed the ruin.
Mary Shelley1797–1851Frankenstein (1818), Chapter XVIIn context
- Anger
- Good & Evil
“I incline to Cain’s heresy,” he used to say quaintly: “I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.”
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), Story of the DoorIn context
Man is not truly one, but truly two.
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the CaseIn context
- Character
- Good & Evil
All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the CaseIn context
- Good & Evil
“Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.”
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter IIn context
- Courage
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter IIIn context
All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick.
Herman Melville1819–1891Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter XLIIn context
- Good & Evil
What’s the use you learning to do right when it’s troublesome to do right and ain’t no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?
Mark Twain1835–1910Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Chapter XVIIn context
I was a-trembling, because I’d got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself:
“All right, then, I’ll go to hell”
Mark Twain1835–1910Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Chapter XXXIIn context
- Decisions
Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.
Mark Twain1835–1910Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Chapter XXXIIIIn context
- Good & Evil
To tear treasure out of the bowels of the land was their desire, with no more moral purpose at the back of it than there is in burglars breaking into a safe.
Joseph Conrad1857–1924Heart of Darkness (1899), Part IIn context
- Money
She dealt with moral problems as a cleaver deals with meat
James Joyce1882–1941Dubliners (1914), The Boarding HouseIn context