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