bartlebythescrivenerquotes

Men have committed murder for jealousy's sake, and anger's sake, and hatred's sake, and selfishness' sake, and spiritual pride's sake; but no man that ever I ...

2020年1月14日 — “Happiness courts the light, so we deem the world is gay, but misery hides aloof, so we deem that misery there is none.”.

Bartleby's state of total isolation inspires an odd combination of emotions in the Narrator; while he's understandably exasperated by the scrivener's behavior, ...

Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none.

“It is not seldom the case that, when a man is browbeaten in some unprecedented and violently unreasonable way, he begins to stagger in his own plainest faith.

I would prefer not to. This is the most famous line in Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener, and perhaps one of the most famous lines in American literature.

35 quotes from Bartleby the Scrivener: 'One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.'

2016年9月15日 — A profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best. Narrator. The narrator does not believe in conflict and is ready ...

“I always deemed [Nippers] the victim of two evil powers—ambition and indigestion. The ambition was evinced by a certain impatience of the duties of a mere ...