"Ivanhoe" Quotes
A knight returns to England to fight for justice and win back his love in this historical novel.
classics | 548 pages | Published in 2000
Quotes
Love, that strongest and dearest tie which can unite human beings, was the theme of every song.
He who serves a partizan party, has the pros and cons of his party, and not of his country, to regard in his career.
The loss of wealth and of thriving friends, to a proud heart, is never virtue's sacrifice.
Those traitorous friends have passed for the present.
Aaland is gone, and Sweyn and Denmark have lost their god; yet I sub mit to heaven's doom.
Woman's faith and tender love, it is alike impossible to win, as to deserve to wear them.
In thy presence, dearest, and in thy absence, there is but one grief, and that, the unfit state of his country.
Nature made thee a woman, to be controlled by thy feelings, and deceived by thy affections.
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.
Thoughest thou so desperately on a worthless woman? on one who is not worthy of thy affection?
