"Caleb Williams" Quotes
A gripping thriller centered around a sinister game of life and death, where the stakes are high and the clock is ticking.
classics | 448 pages | Published in 2005
Quotes
Every hour that now flies over my head becomes irretrievably lost forever.
How frail are the ties of human society, how easy to be broken, how impossible to be repaired!
A man who is resolved to act honestly, is invincible.
How much wiser is it to create than to destroy, to build up than to pull down!
Jealousy is the offspring of pride and vain ambition.
A constant, grounded respect for the rights of others can alone render a person truly great.
No punishment ought to be continued after repentance ceases.
Every wish is not only a dishonor to the heart but a disgrace to the understanding.
Is a tyrant a human being? He is more properly a monster.
Vengeance is a crime, and a crime more atrocious than any which it punishes.
