Interesting Characters Quotes

That's Harris all over - so ready to take the burden of everything himself, and put it on the backs of other people. ~ Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome "Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness." ~ Daniel Deronda by George Eliot "Ecod, you may say what you like of my father, then, and so I give you leave," said Jonas. "I think it's liquid aggravation that circulates through his veins, and not regular blood." ~ Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens She stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation out of the other. ~ Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens He smiled gently. "It is of the first importance," he said, "not to allow your judgment to be biased by personal qualities. A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem. The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning. I assure you that the most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellant man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor." ~ The Sign of The Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantelpiece and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle, and rolled back his left shirt-cuff. For some little time his eyes rested thoughtfully upon the sinewy forearm and wrist all dotted and scarred with innumerable puncture-marks. ~ The Sign of The Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "The only unofficial consulting detective," he answered. "I am the last and highest court of appeal in detection." ~ The Sign of The Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem. ~ The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind. ~ Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham "His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle." ~ Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen