Quotes About Bartleby

#1. I don't talk ill about people I don't know," said Bartleby. "I only disparage them in silence and hope they die.

Michelle Franklin

#2. She was by no means one of the great refusers. Not an existentialist hero, or a Rosa Parks, or even a Bartleby.

Renata Adler

#3. think the word you might be searching for," she finally said, "is stupefied. Or awed? Inspired?" She gave a shy little smile. "But vib. I'm not mad at you, Bartleby." My heart felt like a rubber ball bouncing down the stairs.

Alena Graedon

#4. If you make a Star Wars reference, everybody's familiar with that. It's a common reference that most people can relate to - Bartleby, The Scrivener, probably not so much.

Adam Reed

#5. Fortinbras Bartleby, ten years old when he had died (of consumption, he had told Bod, who had mistakenly believed for several years that Fortinbras had been eaten by lions or bears, and was extremely disappointed to learn it was merely a disease), now apologized to Bod.

Neil Gaiman

#6. Ah, Bartleby! Ah, humanity!

Herman Melville

#7. Gradually I slid into the persuasion that these troubles of mine touching the scrivener, had been all predestinated from eternity, and Bartleby was billeted upon me for some mysterious purpose of an all-wise Providence, which it was not for a mere mortal like me to fathom.

Herman Melville

#8. My first emotions had been those of pure melancholy and sincerest pity; but just in proportion as the forlornness of Bartleby grew and grew to my imagination, did that same melancholy merge into fear, that pity into repulsion.

Herman Melville

#9. Imagine my surprise, nay, my consternation, when without moving from his privacy, Bartleby, in a singular mild, firm voice, replied, I would prefer not to.

Herman Melville

#10. Bartleby is never happy, but he never can be, you know. Life in general offends him. Happiness is something that happens to other people, because life happens to Bartleby. It happens to him frequently and unwarrantedly, and every time he is forced to suffer it, he is always disappointed.

Michelle Franklin

#11. Grab some caviar from the kitchen. You wouldn't believe the muck they feed us in Bartleby's for ten thousand a term.

Eoin Colfer

#12. Our beliefs create the kind of world we believe in. We project our feelings, thoughts and attitudes onto the world. I can create a different world by changing my belief about the world. Our inner state creates the outer and not vice versa.

John Bradshaw

#13. The first thing we pulled out was a lump of white gunk.
"Wax," Carter pronounced.
"Fascinating.

Rick Riordan

#14. It doesn't matter whether it comes in by cable, telephone lines, computor, or satellite. Everyone's going to have to deal with Disney.

Michael Eisner

#15. One thing nobody knows about me is that three of my fingers are edible, but I cant tell you which fingers.

Joe Jonas

#16. It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.

Blaise Pascal

#17. She liked the way this road smelled in the evenings, like rain falling on night-blooming jasmine. Locusts sang old songs in the darkness.

Lauren Kate

#18. Fear is a memory of better times. Fear is a dream.

Michael Dorris

#19. My understanding of environmentalism, of the things that radicalize people, of the ethics and effectiveness of different kinds of social protest have definitely become more nuanced and more informed, but they aren't much clearer.

Marshall Curry

#20. All artist of some measure contemplative.

Evelyn Underhill

#21. It's fun talking to you ... like walking on the edge of a precipice. At first one's nervous but then courage takes over from somewhere.

Ivan Turgenev

#22. The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.

Jerry Rubin