Power Quotes

Who has it, who wants it, and what happens when it's wielded wisely or poorly.

25234 quotes

C
"I own thy speechless, placid eye."
Captain Ahab
M
"It is my fashion to dictate, and yours to receive."
Mr. Rochester
R
"I have her! Behold the scarlet letter."
Roger Chillingworth
C
"He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength with an inscrutable malice sinewing it."
Captain Ahab
L
"The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else."
Lord Henry Wotton
L
"Her mind might be safely guided by my own."
Lady Catherine de Bourgh
H
"Vengeance is sweeter than love."
Heathcliff
T
"One Knitting Woman is a fearful power"
The Narrator
R
"Thou hast escaped me!"
Roger Chillingworth
R
"I have a strange joy in thy curse"
Roger Chillingworth
C
"I am the Резидент of this vessel; the whole ship is my world"
Captain Ahab
D
"Words! Mere words! How terrible they are! How clear, and vivid, and cruel!"
Dorian Gray
T
"I suppose that when a man has found out that he can do anything, he's not able to understand the reasons or excuses of other people's shortcomings."
The Narrator
H
"The greatest punishment we can inflict on them is to deny them our scorn."
Heathcliff
H
"I shall do nothing for the present but guard my prize."
Heathcliff
H
"Hereafter she is only my concern and not yours."
Heathcliff
T
"The war-like and energetic personality of Monseigneur is displayed in his dress"
The Narrator
C
"I'd strike the sun if it insulted me."
Captain Ahab
C
"He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it."
Captain Ahab
H
"He shall have this house to himself when I get it."
Heathcliff
N
"He's the tyrant of the neighborhood."
Nelly Dean
D
"I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, to dominate them."
Dorian Gray
H
"I am not to be tempted by a miser's fortune"
Heathcliff
A
"He has made me!"
Arthur Dimmesdale
C
"All that most maddens and torments."
Captain Ahab
E
"The world is blinded by his fortune and consequence, or frightened by his high and imposing manners."
Elizabeth Bennet
H
"The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them."
Heathcliff
H
"I have got the upper hand, and I will keep it."
Heathcliff
L
"The strong passion which ruled your life is still as inexplicable to me as it ever was"
Lucie Manette
H
"They have treated me cruelly, and I am resolved to show them what cruelty is."
Heathcliff