Quotes by Anthony Hope

About Anthony Hope:

Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins is remembered best for only two books: The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) and its sequel Rupert of Hentzau (1898). These works, "minor classics" of English literature, are set in the contemporaneous fictional country of Ruritania and spawned the genre known as Ruritanian romance. Zenda has inspired many adaptations, most notably the 1937 Hollywood movie of the same name.
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For my part, if a man must needs be a knave I would have him a debonair knave... It makes your sin no worse as I conceive, to do it à la mode and stylishly.

Anthony Hope

I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know).

Anthony Hope

Ah! but a man cannot be held to write down in cold blood the wild and black thoughts that storm his brain when an uncontrolled passion has battered a breach for them. Yet, unless he sets up as a saint, he need not hate himself for them. He is better ...

Anthony Hope

Unless you are a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

Anthony Hope

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

Anthony Hope

Good families are generally worse than any others.

Anthony Hope

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

Anthony Hope

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

Anthony Hope

You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.

Anthony Hope

I may not understand, but I am willing to admire.

Anthony Hope

His foe was folly and his weapon wit.

Anthony Hope

Author Bio

  • NameAnthony Hope
  • DescriptionEnglish novelist and playwright
  • AliasesSir Anthony Hope Hawkins
  • BornFebruary 9, 1863
  • DiedJuly 8, 1933
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionBarrister; Writer; Novelist