Action Quotes

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Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.

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I can't go into a long explanation before company; but I couldn't help it, upon my honour."Upon your what?" growled Sikes, with excessive disgust. "He...more

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The mental agony I have suffered, during the last two days, wrings from me the avowal to you of a passion which, as you well know, is not one of yeste...more

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Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.

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My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in thi...more

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Why look'e, young gentleman," said Toby, "when a man keeps himself so very ex-clusive as I have done, and by that means has a snug house over his head...more

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No one could be so wise as Thurlow looked.

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The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness of his prison, that he looked like ...more

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Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and th...more

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The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there too,...more

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Always the way!" muttered the Jew to himself as he turned homewards. "The worst of these women is, that a very little thing serves to call up some lon...more

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Oliver has long since grown stout and healthy; but health or sickness made no difference in his warm feelings to those about him, though they do in th...more

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Your haughty religious people would have held their heads up to see me as I am tonight, and preached of flames and vengeance,' cried the girl. 'Oh, de...more

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I only hope, for the sake of the rising male sex generally, that you may be found in as vulnerable and soft-hearted a mood by the first eligible young...more

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I have seen enough, too, to know that it is not always the youngest and best who are spared to those that love them; but this should give us comfort r...more

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To do a great right, you may do a little wrong; and you may take any means which the end to be attained will justify.

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It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.

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As she stooped over him, her tears fell upon his forehead.The boy stirred, and smiled in his sleep, as though these marks of pity and compassion had a...more

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I know that she deserves the best and purest love the heart of man can offer," said Mrs. Maylie; "I know that the devotion and affection of her nature...more

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Such a number of nights,' said the girl, with a touch of woman's tenderness, which communicated something like sweetness of tone, even to her voice; '...more

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Spring flew swiftly by, and summer came; and if the village had been beautiful at first, it was now in the full glow and luxuriance of its richness. T...more

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Gradually, he fell into that deep tranquil sleep which ease from recent suffering alone imparts; that calm and peaceful rest which it is pain to wake ...more

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I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises ...more

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If an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitous man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, though it originate in no fault of hers, may be visit...more

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It is the custom on the stage: in all good, murderous melodramas: to present the tragic and the comic scenes, in as regular alternation, as the layers...more

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Bless the bright eyes of your sex! They never see, whether for good or bad, more than one side of any question; and that is always, the one which firs...more

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Joy and grief were mingled in the cup; but there were no bitter tears: for even grief itself arose so softened, and clothed in such sweet and tender r...more

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Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

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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. The...more

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Some conjurers say that number three is the magic number, and some say number seven. It's neither my friend, neither. It's number one. (Fagin)