Silas quotes

• Silas: '"Remnants of a disinherited race"'
• Silas: '"Pallid undersized men"'
• Silas: '"Never strolled into the village to drink a pint at the Rainbow"'
• Silas: '"man's soul being loose from his body"'
• Silas: '"God will clear me"'
• Silas: '"there is no just God .. but a god of lies"'
• Silas: '"he seemed to weave like the spider, from pure impulse, without reflection"'
• Silas: '"unquestioning activity of a spinning insect"'
• Silas: '"there was no Unseen Love that cared for him"'
• Silas: '"symbol of earthly good, and the immediate object of toil"'
• Silas: '"never known an impulse towards falsity"'
• Silas: '"his life narrowing and hardening"'
• Silas: '"the sap of affection was not all gone"'
• Silas: '"unborn children"'
• The rich drank and ate freely
• Without that presence of wife and mother which is the fountain of wholesome love and fear in parlour and kitchen
• Sons had turned out rather ill
• Dunsey: '"a spiteful jeering fellow"'
• Dunsey: '"who seemed to enjoy his drink all the more when others went dry"'
• Godfrey: '"fine, open-faced, good-natured young man"'
• Godfrey: '"Mr Godfrey didn't look half so fresh-coloured and open as he used to"'
• Godfrey: '"if Mr Godfrey didn't turn over a new leaf, he might say "Good-Bye" to Miss Nancy Lammeter"'
• Godfrey: '"Gloomy vexation"'
• Godfrey: '"Hold your tongue about Miss Nancy … else I'll throttle you"'
• Godfrey: '"natural irresolution and moral cowardice"'
• Godfrey: '"sword hanging over him"'
• Godfrey: '"blight on his life"'
• Godfrey: '"he had let himself be dragged back into mud and slime"'
• Dunsey: '"he preferred that Master Godfrey should be vexed"'
• Dunsey: '"took one fence too many and "staked" the horse"'
• Dunsey: '"he stepped forward into the darkness"'
• Silas: '"Golden wine"'
• Silas: '"a man falling into dark water seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones"'
• Silas: '"the cry of desolation"'
• Silas: '"his gold was not there"'
• Silas: '"I've been robbed!"'
• Silas: '"The slight suspicion .. gradually melted away"'
• Silas: '"I don't accuse you – I won't accuse anybody"'
• A tinder box
• Such things had been known as a man's doing himself a mischief