Anthony Hope Quotes
There are moments when I dare not think of it, but there are others when I rise in spirit to where she ever dwells; then I can thank God that I love the noblest lady in the world, the most gracious and beautiful, and that there was nothing in my love that made her fall short in her high duty.

-Anthony Hope
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I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know).

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If love were the only thing, Iwould follow you—in rags, if need be—to the world's end; for you holdmy heart in the hollow of your hand! But is love the only thing?"I know people write and talk as if it were. Perhaps, for some, Fate letsit be. Ah, if I were one of t . . . Read more

-Anthony Hope
God save the King!"Old Sapt's mouth wrinkled into a smile."God save 'em both!" he whispered.

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But if it be never - if I can never hold sweet converse again with her, or look upon her face, or know from her her love; why, then, this side the grave, I will live as becomes the man whom she loves...

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Ah! but a man cannot be held to write down in cold blood the wild and black thoughts that storm his brain when an uncontrolled passion has battered a breach for them. Yet, unless he sets up as a saint, he need not hate himself for them. He is better employed, as it humbly seems to me, . . . Read more

-Anthony Hope
It is my belief that, given the necessary physical likeness, it was far easier to pretend to be king of Ruritania than it would have been to personate my next-door neighbor.

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For my part, if a man must needs be a knave, I would have him a debonair knave, and I liked Rupert Hentzau better than his long-faced, close-eyed companions.

-Anthony Hope
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