Quotes About The Scarlet Pimpernel

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

Rowan Atkinson

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.

Benjamin Disraeli

#6. 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

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

Emmuska Orczy

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

Emmuska Orczy

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

Emmuska Orczy

#10. 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

#11. There's no reason that young girls shouldn't feel like they can't smash people on the field. Nothing dirty. You want to keep it clean. You just want to play hard. Get your jersey dirty, shorts dirty, and just have fun out there.

Carli Lloyd

#12. For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.

Octavio Paz

#13. You may never remember the way you used to be with them, I have no doubt that you'll figure out a way that works with them one day. And when you do, when you figure everything out and decide with no regrets who you want to be, if you still want me, I'll be right here waiting for you.

Shelly Crane

#14. 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

#15. I have been misunderstood more than I've been understood in my life.

Amy Koppelman

#16. I want to be calm.

Courteney Cox

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

Emmuska Orczy

#18. 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

#19. In the dark, where do shadows go?

Orson Scott Card

#20. Those who spend long hours engaged in reading or writing should not be spoken to for seven hours afterward.

Sofia Samatar

#21. 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

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

Emmuska Orczy

#23. 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

#24. All these many-coloured feelings fell... like light on a black surface, producing no change, meeting no return.

Catharine Maria Sedgwick