32 Quotes by Anthony Hope

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

His foe was folly and his weapon wit.

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.

Euphrosyne leant forward, clasping her hands, and said to me: ‘Have you killed him?’ The question vexed me. It would have been civil to accompany it, at all events, with an inquiry as to my own health.

Well, what’s the meaning of that?’ I exclaimed, looking down on the street, empty again save for groups of white-clothed women, who talked eagerly to one another, gesticulating and pointing now towards our inn, now towards where the men had gone.‘Perhaps it’s their Parliament,’ suggested Denny; ‘or perhaps they’ve repented of their rudeness and are going to erect a triumphal arch.’ These conjectures, being obviously ironical, did not assist the matter, although they amused their author.

Phroso made no comment on this; and the moment I had said it I heard a voice below, a voice I knew very well.‘What’s the ladder here for, my friend?’ it asked.‘It enables one to ascend or descend, my lord,’ answered Kortes’s grave voice, without the least touch of irony.

It is my belief that, given the necessary physical likeness, it was far easier to pretend to be king of Ruritania than it would have been to personate my next-door neighbor.

We Neopalians like a man who can be angry, and I began to think you never would.’‘I am not the least angry,’ said I with great indignation. I hate being told that I am angry when I am merely showing firmness.

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