"Ivanhoe" Quotes

Death thou canst me deliver, only from the dungeon-house of this vile castle, to a more glorious prison, -- the dungeon-house of my own castle.

To the abbey--to the abbey!--I will accuse no one but myself.

Thoughest thou so desperately on a worthless woman? on one who is not worthy of thy affection?

Such I was born; but is Richard now thus fallen? and thou, reeking from the slaughter of thousands, art but the echo of a ruthless tyrant's commands.

Men may die at home, or in battle, yet are they remembered among the best there assembled.

The loss of wealth and of thriving friends, to a proud heart, is never virtue's sacrifice.

In thy presence, dearest, and in thy absence, there is but one grief, and that, the unfit state of his country.

He who serves a partizan party, has the pros and cons of his party, and not of his country, to regard in his career.

Nature made thee a woman, to be controlled by thy feelings, and deceived by thy affections.

Ready art thou to leave me, I fear me, for when thou art gone, that what thou thinkest indifference, becomes reproof, and what thou dost mistake for scorn, is an emblem of well-merited punishment.