"Barnaby Rudge" Quotes
A historical novel set during the Gordon Riots in England, following the lives of various characters as they navigate love, betrayal, and political unrest.
classics | 744 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
It is a great and pleasant thing to believe with all our hearts in the existence of a noble nature in others.
The darkest night that ever blew upon Gashford’s wig was far from black enough to obscure the worst designs of that bad man, as truly as the setting sun, when it gleams upon a guilty act, will show the deepest-stained colour.
The writer takes the common objects of life, and by placing them in a new light, invests them with all the interest of the most romantic scenes or circumstances.
The man who has his heart in his profession will talk of business to the last.
The gay bride and bridegroom, surrounded by all the appliances of social and public rejoicing, went forth to be made miserable.
There are chords in the human heart—strange, varying strings—which are only struck by accident; which will remain mute and senseless to appeals the most passionate and earnest, and respond at last to the slightest casual touch.
There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.
It was, as Mr. Dennis would have said, a good omen, and promised well for the day.
There are thoughts of the air, and thoughts of the heart.
The shadow of the college walls—the footsteps in the cloistered quadrangles—the obscure, far-off, unregarded destiny of scholars and founders—the stream of generations, flowing on as it had flowed these five hundred years—the tradition of the place, to awaken the old echoes, and the old sympathies, in the long-accustomed heart—all through this, there was a hidden stream of thought which found no voice or language.
