Scarlet Pimpernel Quotes

#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. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. When a man has done me an evil turn once, I don't like to give him the opportunity to do so twice.

John A. Macdonald

#7. 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

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

Emmuska Orczy

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

Emmuska Orczy

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

Emmuska Orczy

#11. 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

#12. I don't think I'm lucky; I think I have a tough constitution. That's a lot of it. And I've been wise enough to listen to other people. I was unconsciously cultivating as many straight friends as I could.

Iggy Pop

#13. There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.

Joyce Grenfell

#14. Grace shivered even though it was hot out, because that's what detectives do in detective books.

Ella Minster

#15. Real courage is being afraid but doing it anyway.

Oprah Winfrey

#16. The real principle is that between is used for a relationship of an individual to any number of other individuals, as long as they are being considered two at a time, whereas among is used for a relationship of an individual to an amorphous mass or collectivity.

Steven Pinker

#17. Pray use both cats as sponges if it pleases you, infatuated infantryman.

Diana Wynne Jones

#18. It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

George Santayana

#19. Small mind competes, big mind collaborates and great mind encompasses.

Amit Ray

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

Emmuska Orczy

#21. 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

#22. MacKinnon's treatment of the central issue of pornography as she herself poses it - the harm that pornography does to women - is shockingly causal. Much of her evidence is anecdotal, and in a nation of 260 Million people, anecdotes are a weak form of evidence.

Richard Posner

#23. 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

#24. face-to-pussy resuscitation

Helena Hunting

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

Emmuska Orczy

#26. 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

#27. Zombies don't run. They don't dance. They don't say, "More brains." There is no Thriller Night. Those are stereotypes that are perpetrated by Hollywood, which I think is very irresponsible because it can get you killed.

Max Brooks

#28. People don't realize that doing a horror movie is hard work. You're out there all day screaming your lungs out, breathing in toxic make-up fumes, rolling around in the dirt, getting your eyebrows burned off - it's not like doing a sitcom.

Clint Howard