Baroness Orczy Quotes - Page 2

• Your mock saint who stands in a niche is not a woman if she have not suffered, still less a woman if she have not sinned. Fall at the feet of your idol as you wish, but drag her down to your level after that -- the only level she should ever reach, that of your heart.

  Baroness Orczy

  Fall, Heart, Idols

  Baroness Orczy (2012). “I Will Repay”, p.56, House of Stratus

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• When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness, and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys.

  Baroness Orczy

  Sadness, Gay, Echoes

  Baroness Orczy (2012). “The Scarlet Pimpernel”, p.140, Courier Corporation

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• A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. The hour, some little time before sunset, and the place, the West Barricade, at the very spot where, a decade later, a proud tyrant raised an undying monument to the nation's glory and his own vanity.

  Baroness Orczy

  Hate, Passion, Sunset

  Baroness Orczy (2015). “The Scarlet Pimpernel”, p.5, Xist Publishing

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• She said nothing, and Sir Andrew, too, was silent, yet those two young people understood one another, as young people have a way of doing all the world over, and have done since the world began.

  Baroness Orczy

  Two, People, Done

  Baroness Orczy (2015). “The Scarlet Pimpernel”, p.27, Xist Publishing

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