Top 15 Quotes & Sayings by Anthony Hope

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British novelist Anthony Hope.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope, was a British novelist and playwright. He was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels but he is remembered predominantly 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, books set in fictional European locales similar to the novels. Zenda has inspired many adaptations, most notably the 1937 Hollywood movie of the same name and the 1952 version.

British - Novelist | February 9, 1863 - July 8, 1933

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

Anthony Hope

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

Anthony Hope

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

Anthony Hope

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

Anthony Hope

His foe was folly and his weapon wit.

Anthony Hope

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

Anthony Hope

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

Anthony Hope

Good families are generally worse than any others.

Anthony Hope

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

In the deep, unwritten wisdom of life there are many things to be learned that cannot be taught. We never know them by hearing them spoken, but we grow into them by experience and recognize them through understanding. Understanding is a great experience in itself, but it does not come through instruction.

Anthony Hope

Economy is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something you probably won't want.

Anthony Hope

He is very fond of making things which he does not want, and then giving them to people who have no use for them.

Anthony Hope

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

Anthony Hope

Somehow love gives even to a dull man the knowledge of his lover's heart.

Anthony Hope

There are moments when I dare not think of it, but there are others when I rise in spirit to where she ever dwells; then I can thank God that I love the noblest lady in the world, the most gracious and beautiful, and that there was nothing in my love that made her fall short in her high duty.

Anthony Hope

Top 15 Quotes & Sayings by Anthony Hope

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