Quotes about Responsibility

if you deserve it, and repent in action—not in words. I want no more words.

My child, if I have any object in life, it is to provide for your being a good, a sensible, and a happy man. I am bent upon it.

As Hamlet says, Hercules may lay about him with his club in every possible direction, but he can't prevent the cats from making a most intolerable row on the roofs of the houses, or the dogs from being shot in the hot weather if they run about the streets unmuzzled

I must bear the consequences as I deserve!

Nobody was hard with him or with me. There was duty to be done, and it was done, but not harshly.

Conscience is a dreadful thing when it accuses man or boy;

Dear me, dear me,' replied a testy voice, 'I am very sorry for it, but what am I to do? I can't build it up again. The chief magistrate of the city can't go and be a rebuilding of people's houses, my good sir. Stuff and nonsense!' 'But the chief magistrate of the city can prevent people's houses from having any need to be rebuilt, if the chief magistrate's a man, and not a dummy—can't he, my lord?' cried the old gentleman in a choleric manner.

Little Dorrit was late on the Monday morning, for her father slept late, and afterwards there was his breakfast to prepare and his room to arrange. She had no engagement to go out to work, however, and therefore stayed with him until, with Maggy's help, she had put everything right about him, and had seen him off upon his morning walk (of twenty yards or so) to the coffee-house to read the paper.

If you bring the boy back with his head blown to bits by a musket, don't look to me to put it together again.

It's not my business," Scrooge returned. "It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly.

great men are urged on to the abuse of power (when they need urging, which is not often), by their flatterers and dependents,

We made no more provision for growing older, than we did for growing younger.