Hall Caine > Quotes

“He was not a man of icy nature, but he loved to gather icicles about him.”
― Hall Caine, The Manxman

“He was all iron outside, but all father within.”
― Hall Caine, The Manxman

“But of what avail was the innocence of the accused in days when an indictment was equal to a conviction!”
― Sir Hall Caine, The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance

“Ah! how true it was that conscience was a thousand swords.”
― Sir Hall Caine, The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance

“Hidden there—hidden even from himself—had lain inert for months a mighty passion such as only a great heart”
― Sir Hall Caine, The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance

“Some offered such rude comfort as their sympathetic hearts but not too fecund intellects could devise,”
― Sir Hall Caine, The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance

“It's ill-luck to serve a bad man,”
― Sir Hall Caine, The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance

“But it is possible to kill without drawing blood. We may be murderers and never suspect to the awfulness of our crime. To wither with suspicion, to blast with scorn, to dog with cruel hints, to torture with hard looks- this is to kill without blood. Did you ever think of it? There are worse hangmen than ever stood on the gallows.”
― Hall Caine, The Shadow of a Crime

“Yet what was life worth now that he should struggle like this to preserve it?”
― Hall Caine, The Shadow of a Crime

“Paucis vivit humanum genus—the human race exists for the benefit of the few.”
― Hall Caine, The Eternal City

“when one dies, those who survive ask what he has left behind; the angel who bends above him asks what he has sent before.”
― Sir Hall Caine, The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance

“leave such mistakes for time to set right. And when the truth comes in such a case it comes to some purpose.”
― Sir Hall Caine, The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance