All 11 Uses
conscience
in
Major Barbara
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- The lifelong struggle of a benevolent temperament and a high conscience against impulses of inhuman ridicule and fierce impatience has set up a chronic strain which has visibly wrecked his constitution.†
Act 1conscience = feeling or appraisal of having personally behaved in a morally right or wrong manner
- All the spare money my trade rivals spend on hospitals, cathedrals and other receptacles for conscience money, I devote to experiments and researches in improved methods of destroying life and property.†
Act 1
- I wouldn't have your conscience, not for all your income.†
Act 2
- I wouldn't have your income, not for all your conscience, Mr Shirley.†
Act 2
- In with you; and give that conscience of yours a holiday [bustling him into the shelter].†
Act 2
- Wot I done to er is not on me mawnd—wot she [indicating Barbara] might call on me conscience—no more than stickin a pig.†
Act 2 *
- Until I met Barbara I thought myself in the main an honorable, truthful man, because I wanted the approval of my conscience more than I wanted anything else.†
Act 3
- But the moment I saw Barbara, I wanted her far more than the approval of my conscience.†
Act 3
- Now you all know my opinion; and my conscience is clear, at all events [she sits down again with a vehemence that almost wrecks the chair].†
Act 3
- Your conscience is clear and your duty done when you have called everybody names.†
Act 3
- UNDERSHAFT [with biting contempt] You lust for personal righteousness, for self-approval, for what you call a good conscience, for what Barbara calls salvation, for what I call patronizing people who are not so lucky as yourself.†
Act 3
Definitions:
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(1)
(conscience) feeling or judgment of morally right or wrong personal behavior
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)