"The Scarlet Pimpernel" Quotes
A daring Englishman disguises himself to rescue French aristocrats from the guillotine during the Reign of Terror.
classics | 182 pages | Published in 2005
Quotes
They seek him here, they seek him there, Those Frenchies seek him everywhere.
We seek him here, we seek him there, Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven? — Is he in hell? That demmed, elusive Pimpernel.
Sink me! But 'tis a fearsome thing to feel that the lives of ninety-four men lie in the hands of one.
I am a very ordinary woman, my lord. Yet I am aware that I have a heart.
They've set a guard at the gate. I can't even get out of the house!
It is not love, it is not marriage that has killed my happiness; it is the man who, by a trick, has lured me into a mockery of both.
You are a woman, and your heart is full of wiles; there is no end to them.
To my wife, I am a lackey, a servant, a machine: my love for her is dead, and I am glad of that, for it has given life to my love for another woman.
I would sooner trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.
A man's first duty is to his own safety.
