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Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.
Jane Austen1775–1817Emma (1815), Volume I, Chapter IIn context
- Character
There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
Jane Austen1775–1817Emma (1815), Volume I, Chapter XIIn context
- Character
- Charity
Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot’s character; vanity of person and of situation.
Jane Austen1775–1817Persuasion (1817), Chapter IIn context
- Character
- Pride
One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.
Jane Austen1775–1817Persuasion (1817), Chapter XIIIIn context
- Character
Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
Jane Austen1775–1817Mansfield Park (1814), Chapter VIIIn context
- Character
- Forgiveness
What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?
Mary Shelley1797–1851Frankenstein (1818), Letter IIIIn context
- Courage
- Motivation & Goals
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
- Good & Evil
- Happiness
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
Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter IIn context
- Character
“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
- Morality
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter IIn context
- Character
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter VIn context
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
Charles Dickens1812–1870A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Book the First: Recalled to Life, Chapter IIIIn context
- Character
Throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
Charles Dickens1812–1870Great Expectations (1861), Chapter XXVIIIn context
- Character
If they would rather die,” said Scrooge, “they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.
Charles Dickens1812–1870A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave IIn context
- Charity