«Oliver Twist» adlı sesli kitaptan alıntılar, sayfa 15
Ему уже было известно, что даже правосудие может принять невинного за виновного, если тот и другой случайно очутились вместе.
Все дожди, какие когда-либо выпали или выпадут, не могут угасить того адского пламени, которое иной человек носит в себе.
Отнимите у епископа его рясу или у приходского билда его треуголку или галуны - кем будут они тогда? Людьми. Обыкновенными людьми! Иной раз достоинство и даже святость зависят от сюртука и жилета больше, чем кое-кто полагает.
...без глубокой любви, доброты сердечной и благодарности к тому существу, чей закон - милосердие и великое свойство которого - благоволение ко всему, что дышит, - без этого не достижимо счастье.
Для ссоры всегда нужны две стороны.
“When ladies as young, and good, and beautiful as you are,' replied the girl steadily, 'give away your hearts, love will carry you all lengths—even such as you, who have home, friends, other admirers, everything, to fill them. When such as I, who have no certain roof but the coffinlid, and no friend in sickness or death but the hospital nurse, set our rotten hearts on any man, and let him fill the place that has been a blank through all our wretched lives, who can hope to cure us? Pity us, lady—pity us for having only one feeling of the woman left, and for having that turned, by a heavy judgment, from a comfort and a pride, into a new means of violence and suffering”
“Thank Heaven upon your knees, dear lady,' cried the girl, 'that you had friends to care for and keep you in your childhood, and that you were never in the midst of cold and hunger, and riot and drunkenness, and—and—something worse than all—as I have been from my cradle”
“I don't know what it is,' answered the girl; 'I only know that it is so, and not with me alone, but with hundreds of others as bad and wretched as myself. I must go back. Whether it is God's wrath for the wrong I have done, I do not know; but I am drawn back to him through every suffering and ill usage; and I should be, I believe, if I knew that I was to die by his hand at last.”
“The doctor seemed expecially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the established custom of gentlemen in the housebreaking way to transact business at noon, and to make an appointment, by post, a day or two previous”
“What a beautiful, mild face that lady's is!''Ah!' said the old lady, 'painters always make ladies out prettier than they are, or they wouldn't get any custom, child. The man that invented the machine for taking likenesses might have known that would never succeed; it's a deal too honest. "
“I wish some well-fed philosopher, whose meat and drink turn to gall within him; whose blood is ice, whose heart is iron; could have seen Oliver Twist clutching at the dainty viands that the dog had neglected. I wish he could have witnessed the horrible avidity with which Oliver tore the bits asunder with all the ferocity of famine. There is only one thing I should like better; and that would be to see the Philosopher making the same sort of meal himself, with the same relish.”
Художники завжди роблять жінок гарнішими, ніж вони є навсправжки, інакше, дитинко, хто б їм портрети замовляв?
