Sybil (novel) Quotes

“A public man of light and leading.”

“There is no wisdom like frankness.”

“We all of us live too much in a circle.”

“Principle is ever my motto, not expediency.”

“Property has its duties as well as its rights.”

“Little things affect little minds.”

“I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine.”

“Power has only one duty—to secure the social welfare of the PEOPLE.”

“We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.”

“Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.”

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“To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.”

“Mr. Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.”

“The Egremonts had never said anything that was remembered, or done anything that could be recalled.”

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“Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.”

“But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day, and the race a life.”

“The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame; a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others.”

“In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbours. Christianity teaches us to love our neighbour as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbour.”

“"I was told," continued Egremont, "that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told that the Privileged and the People formed Two Nations, governed by different laws, influenced by different manners, with no thoughts or sympathies in common; with an innate inability of mutual comprehension."”