The Secret Agent Quotes

It seems that two office-boys in the building had worked upon his feelings by tales of injustice and oppression till they had wrought his compassion to the pitch of that frenzy. (1.14)

He applied himself to that pastime with great industry, with his elbows spread out and bowed low over the kitchen table. Through the open door of the parlour at the back of the shop Winnie, his sis...

At once, with contemptuous perversity, Mr. Vladimir changed the language, and began to speak idiomatic English without the slightest trace of a foreign accent. (2.30)

The lamentable inferiority of the physique was made ludicrous by the supremely self-confident bearing of the individual. His speech was curt, and he had a particularly impressive manner of keeping...

His big, prominent eyes were not well adapted to winking. They were rather the sort that closes solemnly in slumber with majestic effect. Undemonstrative and burly in a fat-pig style, Mr Verloc, wi...

Born of industrious parents for a life of toil, he had embraced indolence from an impulse as profound, as inexplicable and as imperious as the impulse which directs a mans preference for one partic...

[Mr. Verloc] surveyed through the park railings the evidences of the towns opulence and luxury with an approving eye. All these people had to be protected. Protection is the first necessity of opul...