The Horde Quotes

#1. If Helen of Troy could have been seen eating peppermints out of a paper bag, it is highly probable that her admirers would have been an entirely different class.It is the thing you are found doing while the horde looks on that you shall be loved for - or ignored.

Djuna Barnes

#2. They were truly new people. No longer Forest People, certainly not the Horde. They were outcasts. They were the chosen. Those who had died. Those who lived.

Ted Dekker

#3. Before I can answer, the horde descends on him. It's scarier than a zombie apocalypse.
"Shit," he mutters.
"Oh my God, I love ketchup too!" a girl squeals at the bottle in his hand. "We have so much in common!

Miranda Kenneally

#4. Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.

Sri Aurobindo

#5. The rest of the class looked away. He [Jonas} was a quiet freak, not a zombie. The horde would not protect him. They'd stand by and watch the culling.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#6. Aghast, Yasmeen gaped at her before looking to the duke. It's worse than I thought. Not just the Horde, not just the police- you're keeping company with someone who has principles.

Meljean Brook

#7. There will be a feast tonight I lick my lips and jump back out as the majority of the horde moves on. I keep running behind them to make sure that they keep going straight.

Two Little Cowboys

#8. O saar, beware!
Beware the horde,
The ones you never see.
We build your lairth,
Repair, invent,
We do all this for free.
You torch our hideth
You crunch our boneth
Kill with impunity,
But we are not
Tho helpless now.
Our day cometh. We are free.

Rachel Hartman

#9. As the horde of ancient and mythical creatures impossibly descends upon you and dragonfire envelopes the land, you are forced to concede that it's probably the very coolest way that you could die.

Daniel Keidl

#10. Love, why have you sought the horde
of spearsmen, why the tent
Achilles pitched beside the river-ford?

Hilda Doolittle

#11. This asshole had better open the door," Jackal growled, spinning his fire ax in a graceful arc as the horde came on. "I didn't come all the way to Eden to be eaten at the damn gates. Some might call it ironic, but that just pisses me off.

Julie Kagawa

#12. Elections decide which horde of rats gets to gnaw at the bones.

Lyndsay Faye

#13. When Myst had been in a Horde prison, the Forbearer rebels took the castle, and one of their generals had freed her to make love to her. Before the Valkyrie could rescue her, things had gotten out of hand in a dank cell.

Kresley Cole

#14. A demonic horde. Upended sacks of beans. A hundred broken rosaries. There are a thousand metaphors and all of them are inadequate: forty bombs per aircraft, four hundred and eighty altogether, seventy-two thousand pounds of explosives.

Anthony Doerr

#15. So, you're the infamous Acheron."
A smile played across his devastatingly handsome face. "Lord and master of the great barbarian horde that roams the night.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#16. I love you. Not when it's easy, all the time.
-Horde

Ann Aguirre

#17. Everyone wanted to see [him] fall so they could devour his remains. As is usually the case, the army of sycophants had turned into a horde of hungry hyenas

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#18. I was going to fight to keep the elusive Horde King as my own. Every beauty needed a beast, and he was mine.

Amelia Hutchins

#19. We don't collect fancy cars or houses, horde money, make investments. We travel the road, collect sights and sounds instead. Respect and pride are practically currency here.

C.M. Stunich

#20. One of the things I've learned is never to horde ideas, because either they are not so relevant or they've gone stale. Whatever it is, pour it out.

Mary Quant

#21. When I write a word in English, a simple one, such as, say, 'chief,' I have unwittingly ushered a querulous horde into the room. The Roman legionary is there, shaking his cap, or head, and Andy Capp is there, slouching in his signature working man's headgear.

Geraldine Brooks

#22. Haven't already been drawn into her dark and addictive dystopian series, Ann Aguirre is the author of the best-selling Enclave trilogy. Bonus
book three, Horde , came out late last year, so you can read them without the interminable wait in between. In this

Anonymous

#23. So you're the infamous Acheron. (Amanda)
Lord and Master of the great barbarian horde that roams the night. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#24. When we appropriate money from the public funds to pay for vaccinating a horde of negroes, we do not do it because we have any sympathy for them or because we crave their blessings, but simply because we don't want them to be falling ill of smallpox

H.L. Mencken

#25. If things went according to the death notices, ... the earth seems to have been populated by a horde of wingless angels without one's having been aware of it. Pure love, which in reality is to be found so seldom, shines on all sides in death, and is the commonest thing of all.

Erich Maria Remarque

#26. By now, sympathy for the plight of the polar bears had largely disappeared from public discourse. Instead of beautiful mammals deserving of out preservation efforts, they came to be known as a marauding horde of beasts surfing a climatic anomaly that was laying waste to Canada.

Ryan Boudinot

#27. Every State looks upon its neighbours as at bottom a horde of robbers, who will fall upon it as soon as they have the opportunity.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#28. In general, the deployment of austerity as economic policy has been as effective in bringing us peace, prosperity, and crucially, a sustained reduction of debt, as the Mongol Golden Horde was in furthering the development of Olympic dressage.

Mark Blyth

#29. The last thing I needed was for a horde of Justin Bieber fans to take over my Twitter feed with death threats.

R.S. Grey

#30. It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now.

David Attenborough

#31. She wanted, just now, to have a cell in a settlement-house, like a nun without the bother of a black robe, and be kind, and read Bernard Shaw, and enormously improve a horde of grateful poor.

Sinclair Lewis

#32. Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.

Lord Byron

#33. He was aware, as he did so, of a poignant air of tragic dedication in all his actions, the dutiful routines of a doomed picket manning his lonely watch, as, beyond the next range of hills, the barbarian horde mounted its conquering ponies.

Michael Chabon

#34. There in the midst of German life is an alien and isolated race of men. Loud and self-conscious in their dress, hot-blooded and restless in their manner. An Asiatic horde on the sandy plains of Prussia. Forming among themselves a close corporation, rigorously shut off from the rest of the world.

Walther Rathenau

#35. After twelve centuries, a little hope had come into the world - and then came an illiterate prince to ride roughshod over it with a barbarian horde and...

Walter M. Miller

#36. All right, so if the Unseelie horde does come through Gate LA4, what exactly am I supposed to do?"
"Die horribly. But swiftly, I'd think. They'll be eager to get on with their world conquest."
"Okeydokey then. Thanks for the heads up.

Mishell Baker

#37. Because I love you.' It was easy to say it this time now that I understood what it meant. Then I quoted his own words back to him. 'Not just when it's easy. All the time.

Ann Aguirre

#38. In my preaching the shafts are ever aimed at the brainwashed horde.

Powell Clayton

#39. The buttons on her back gave way as if before a Mongol horde.

Sherry Thomas

#40. Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives.

Camille Paglia

#41. But wishes were empty thoughts, cast down a dark hole. They didn't come true unless you worked for them. I'd learned that about the world, if nothing more.

Ann Aguirre

#42. I'd face down a horde of spiders for you, baby." I grinned at the sound of his laugh again. "For real."
"Thats true love there. Some serious stuff," he teased.
"It is.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#43. But courage wasn't an absence of fear; it was fighting despite the knot in your stomach.

Ann Aguirre

#44. He didn't do it because his religion told him to murder people. He didn't do it because he couldn't control himself. He did it out of pure selfish greed, and he didn't feel the least bit upset by it. I'd rather take on a demonic horde any day. The

Ilona Andrews

#45. Society is now one polish'd horde, Form'd of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.

George Gordon Byron

#46. She had thought she could make a difference. She had thought she could drive back the advancing horde - by the sheer weight of her will, if need be. It was arrogance on her part. The forces of freedom were lost.

Terry Goodkind

#47. If he chose, he could help this girl, but what was the point of saving one little whore? It would make no difference to that vast, endless, tragic horde of broken children.
But as Jenny stared at him with great stark eyes, he knew that it would make a difference to her.

Mary Jo Putney

#48. Love yourself' the social horde spouts from on high, mere moments later they frown at a bypassing narcissist.

Kevin Focke

#49. Then in the interest of full honesty, I really wish you'd kiss me right now.

Ann Aguirre

#50. Her Shadowblade Prime was fully roused now, power rolling away from her in uncontrollable waves. Her Blades wouldn't be able to ignore it. She had to get to the vault before they came running to stop her like a horde of hysterical nannies.

Diana Pharaoh Francis