"The Way We Live Now" Quotes
"The Way We Live Now" satirizes the greed, corruption, and social ambition of Victorian England through the rise and fall of a fraudulent financier, Augustus Melmotte.
classics | 752 pages | Published in 1875
Quotes
The greatest truths are often the most palpable and the least acceptable.
There is a great deal of darkness in New York.
He was a man who liked to be original, and who liked to be considered daring.
The fact is, no one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
The man who sees no reason for vice need not be virtuous.
Young people are always in a hurry.
It is difficult to be perfectly honest and perfectly civil.
The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
It is hard to be just to those we love.
There is nothing in the world so difficult as that which is just and fair.
