Theme: morality
Dracula / Sacrifice and Loyalty
No word shall be lost; and in the good time I shall give them back to you. It’s a hard thing I ask, but you will do it, will you not, for Lucy’s sake?...
Frankenstein / Voyage of Discovery
I replied, however, that we were on a voyage of discovery towards the northern pole. Upon hearing this he appeared satisfied and consented to come on ...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Technological Tension
According to my idea, the _Nautilus_ would attack the ship at her waterline, and then it would not only be possible, but easy to fly. At three in the ...
Wuthering Heights / Vengeance and Forgiveness
It is, if I may take an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth; for every wrench of agony return a wrench: reduce him to my level. As he was the first to...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Perception and Deduction
Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it out.” He chuckled to himself and rubbed h...
Frankenstein / Isolation and Connection
If I have no ties and no affections, hatred and vice must be my portion; the love of another will destroy the cause of my crimes, and I shall become a...
Frankenstein / Freedom and Accountability
Kirwin’s to give an account of yourself.” “Who is Mr. Is not this a free country?” “Ay, sir, free enough for honest folks.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Coincidence and Inquiry
It could only be a small one, or it would have been remarked upon at the coroner’s inquiry. I deduced a ventilator.” “But what harm can there be in th...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Perception vs Reality
It appeared to you to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. You suppose that your son came down from his bed, went, at great risk, to ...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Camaraderie and Rivalry
For two streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and burst into a h...
The War of the Worlds / Struggle and Despair
As the days wore on, his utter carelessness of any consideration so intensified our distress and danger that I had, much as I loathed doing it, to res...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Cunning Strategy
Fogg’s plan appeared to him the simplest in the world. Instead of sailing directly from England to the United States, like a common villain, he had tr...
Gulliver's Travels / Motivations of War
Sometimes a war is entered upon, because the enemy is too strong; and sometimes, because he is too weak. Sometimes our neighbours want the things whic...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Crime and Justice
Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found either upon his person or in his rooms. Cat...
Gulliver's Travels / Nature of Vice
He was wholly at a loss to know what could be the use or necessity of practising those vices. To clear up which, I endeavoured to give some ideas of t...
Gulliver's Travels / Justice and Mercy
He said, the friendship between you and him was so well known to the world, that perhaps the most honourable board might think him partial; however, i...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Detectives Dilemma
Fix saw them leave the carriage and push off in a boat for the steamer, and stamped his feet with disappointment. I’ll follow him to the end of the wo...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Deception and Desire
but the truth; but he managed so well that the creature joined the honey-cakes in his bag.
Gulliver's Travels / Gendered Education
In the female nurseries, the young girls of quality are educated much like the males, only they are dressed by orderly servants of their own sex; but ...
Pride and Prejudice / Gratitude and Justice
I thank you again and again, for not going to the Lakes. Perhaps other people have said so before, but no one with such justice.