Human Nature Quotes

He covered page after page with wild words of sorrow and wilder words of pain. There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution. ~ The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde "That's the way we all begin," said Tom Platt. "The boys they make believe all the time till they've cheated 'emselves into bein' men, an' so till they die - pretendin' an' pretendin' " ~ Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling "So much has religion done for me; turning the original materials to the best account; pruning and training nature. But she could not eradicate nature: nor will it be eradicated 'till this mortal shall put on immortality." ~ Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. ~ Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte A man must not hold himself aloof from the things which his friends and his community have at heart if he would be liked. ~ A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain "The past and the present are within the field of my inquiry, but what a man may do in the future is a hard question to answer." ~ The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise. ~ Great Expectations by Charles Dickens "The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is--a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. But a mob without any MAN at the head of it is BENEATH pitifulness." ~ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain "The average man don't like trouble and danger." ~ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain "People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors." ~ Middlemarch by George Eliot