Pimpernel Quotes

#1. We seek him here, we seek him there, Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven? - Is he in hell? That damned, elusive Pimpernel?

Emma Orczy

#2. They seek him here, they seek him there
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere
Is he in heaven or is he in hell?
That demned elusive Pimpernel

Emmuska Orczy

#3. The Scarlet Pimpernel is the most over-rated human being since Judas Iscariot won the A.D.31 'Best Disciple' competition.

Rowan Atkinson

#4. History was my favourite subject at school and in my spare time I read historical novels voraciously from Heidi to the Scarlet Pimpernel and from Georgette Heyer to Agatha Christie.

Sara Sheridan

#5. I was 15 years old when I first heard the name Mandela, or Madiba, as he is fondly known in Africa. In apartheid South Africa he was public enemy number one. Shrouded in secrecy, myth and rumour, the media called him 'The Black Pimpernel'.

Kumi Naidoo

#6. This Jackson bloke was the ruddy Scarlet Pimpernel, here, there and everywhere, always one step ahead of Barry. And everywhere he went, women were disappearing.

Kate Atkinson

#7. I have tons of rescuing fantasies based on the movies I saw when I was growing up. I wanted to be Robin Hood and the Three Musketeers and the Scarlet Pimpernel.

Harold Ramis

#8. The Crimson Pirate, The Mark of Zorro, Captain Blood, The Black Pirate, Adventures of Don Juan, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Sea Hawk, The Prisoner of Zenda, Scaramouche,

Cary Elwes

#9. Some women feel loved if you do the dishes without being reminded; some men feel loved if you'll play a video game with them, others if you buy them a collar and a nice leash and occasionally lead them around by it.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#10. Since then her life had been peaceful and happy. She had allowed herself to be worshipped by that strangely captivating lover of hers, whose passionately willful temperament, tempered by that persistent, sunny gaiety, she had up to now only half understood.

Emmuska Orczy

#11. You'd be amazed how much quality collective thought can be captured using two simple tools: a voice connection and a shared screen.

Jason Fried

#12. Some people are a natural administrator. They actually enjoy doing it. I find it a chore. I'm not a details person. I go for the big sweep.

Peter Hollingworth

#13. In sports, you play up to the level of your opponent, and I did some of my best work with Chevy, and I'm so grateful to have worked opposite him. He was a handful and a challenge, and he made me step up to the plate.

Cindy Morgan

#14. Her whole body stiffened as with a great and firm resolution. This she meant to do, if God gave her wits and strength.

Emmuska Orczy

#15. You know my belief in bald-headed Fortune, with the one solitary hair. Well, I meant to grab that hair ...

Emmuska Orczy

#16. He made her laugh always made her taste a strange and exquisite bliss when he held her in his arms.

Emmuska Orczy

#17. Your conscience troubles you unnecessarily, and you see a deliberate intention in every simple act.

Emmuska Orczy

#18. Historically, a story about people inside impressive buildings ignoring or even taunting people standing outside shouting at them turns out to be a story with an unhappy ending.

Lemony Snicket

#19. When I got started in New York, it wasn't like it is now. If you were different from Miles and Dizzy, it was very difficult to make gigs and make money with your own style.

Freddie Hubbard

#20. She, at least, ought to have known that he was wearing a mask, and having found that out, she should have torn it from his face, whenever they were alone together ... Her love for him had been paltry and weak, easily crushed by her own pride

Emmuska Orczy

#21. There are times when we have to step into the darkness in faith, confident that God will place solid ground beneath our feet once we do.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#22. One of the great elements of the supernatural is having that mystery and letting people's imaginations run wild with it.

Eli Roth

#23. I've been running my whole life. Running into bars, running around the world. But when you have a child, you can't run. That was a revelation.

Craig Ferguson

#24. The more times people laugh, the better the film is.

Declan Lowney

#25. I don't like jeans with holes in 'em. I like 'em faded.

Liam Gallagher

#26. Do you have so many people that you care about that you can afford to be callous to them?

Bethany Hagen

#27. Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.

Maxim Gorky

#28. His pride and her beauty had been in direct conflict, and his pride had remained the conqueror.

Emmuska Orczy

#29. Hers was the perfect love that dwells on the other's happiness, and not on its own. She knew that, though for the time being he would find bliss and oblivion in her arms, he would soon repine in inactivity whilst others fought for that which he held sublime.

Emmuska Orczy

#30. Tis only in the future you can prove your true worth.

Emmuska Orczy

#31. Our pleasures in literature do not, I think, decline with age; last 1st of January was my eighty-second birthday, and I think that I had as much enjoyment from books as I ever had in my life.

Maria Edgeworth

#32. Every Democrat says he wants to be JFK while insisting that he will do more or less what LBJ did. No Democrat would dream of saying he wanted to emulate Lyndon Johnson, because the myth is what matters most.

Jonah Goldberg

#33. She said nothing, and Sir Andrew, too, was silent, yet those two young people understood one another, as young people have a way of doing all the world over, and have done since the world began.

Emmuska Orczy