Quotes About Ivanhoe

#1. You end up with this succession of periods when everything was marvellous - from King Arthur to the medieval times, Ivanhoe, chivalry, Henry VIII, Merry England, the Blitz

Ian Hislop

#2. God will raise me up a champion."
~ Rebecca (Ivanhoe)

Walter Scott

#3. Sir Walter Scott created rank & caste in the South and also reverence for and pride and pleasure in them. Life on the Mississippi
Don Quixote swept admiration for medieval chivalry-silliness out of existence. Ivanhoe restored it. Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi

Mark Twain

#4. For a while they sat without talking. Anna got her daypack and dug out a paperback copy of Ivanhoe. It produced a book's inevitable effect. In cats it stimulated the urge to sit on the pages. In humans it stimulated conversation.

Nevada Barr

#5. Perhaps you have observed that my "Ivanhoe" is of a different edition from the others. The first copy was left in the grass by the side of a stream, fell into the water, and was eventually picked up three days later, swollen and decomposed, upon a mud-bank.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#6. Everything he knew was with a girl. Like reciting a learned lesson, something he could do because he had to. This - this was new. And exciting. And primal and raw and right.

Brigid Kemmerer

#7. Scott calls Bois-Guilbert "an unprincipled voluptuary," which is hard to improve on.

Richard Armour

#8. Brimming. That's what it is, I want to get to a place where my sentences enact brimming.

Li-Young Lee

#9. I will but confess the sins of my green cloak to my grey friar's frock, and all shall be well again.

Walter Scott

#10. Note even Moroi give licenses to infants, Sage,

Richelle Mead

#11. It is human longing that makes us holy.

John O'Donohue

#12. What you shun enduring yourself, attempt not to impose on others. You shun slavery- beware enslaving others! If you can endure to do that, one would think you had been once upon a time a slave yourself. For vice has nothing in common with virtue, nor Freedom with slavery.

Epictetus

#13. The spectacle of a judge pouring over the picture of some nude, trying to ascertain the extent to which she arouses prurient interests, and then attempting to write an opinion which explains the difference between that nude and some other nude has elements of low comedy.

Thurman Arnold

#14. He means to make his subjects merciful and wise; sorrow and struggle bringeth both. We will, he tells me, grow by grieving, live by dying, love by losing. The heart itself is the field of battle and the garden green.

Andrew Peterson

#15. Obviously Victoria and Mel B have become mothers and there is a part of me that wants to be a mum.

Geri Halliwell