Robin Hood Quotes

• When I played Robin Hood, I knew the great role was Alan Rickman's and it didn't bother me. I always think that leading actors should be called the best supporting actors.

  Kevin Costner

  Thinking, Robins, Roles

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• The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.

  Lascelles Abercrombie

  Important, Age, Robins

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• Absence makes the heart grow fonder

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  I Miss You, Romantic, Missing You

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• That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas.

  Alan Rickman

  Kitchen, Thieves, Orphan

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• I once heard a wise man say there are no perfect men. Only perfect intentions.

  Morgan Freeman

  Wise, Men, Perfect

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• Like Robin Hood....Not real, but true.

  Janette Rallison

  Real, Robins, Hood

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• I'm not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don't see the problem.

  Bill Nighy

  Beautiful, Simple, Ideas

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• If you outlaw half a million people you make martyrs of them. For example, if you outlaw Robin Hood, it is all very well, but if you outlaw a whole group of people around Robin Hood, then Robin Hood and his merry men become legends.

  Baldur von Schirach

  Men, People, Robins

  "The Nuremberg Interviews: Conversations with the Defendants and Witnesses". Book by Leon Goldensohn, Random House, p. 237 (To Leon Goldensohn, March 10, 1946), 2010.

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• Robin Hood had it right.Humanity's deepest wish is to spread the wealth.

  Frans de Waal

  Humanity, Wish, Robins

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• I have tons of rescuing fantasies based on the movies I saw when I was growing up. I wanted to be Robin Hood and the Three Musketeers and the Scarlet Pimpernel.

  Harold Ramis

  Growing Up, Robins, Three

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I was mischievous. I wasn't bad. I stole food so we could eat. My mother didn't know. I used to tell her some man gave me $10 to sweep out the yard. I was like Robin Hood. I took from the rich and gave to the poor. Me.

  Mr. T

  Mother, Men, Robins

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• This Hollywood ain't no good, I would rather be like Robin Hood.

  Van Morrison

  Art, Media, Entertainment

  Song: This Weight, Album: The Healing Game

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• Trying to please everyone can be very hard, but, like Shrek or The Simpsons, Robin Hood manages to entertain adults and children at the same time, but in different ways.

  Richard Armitage

  Children, Trying, Adults

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• I'm certainly not a Robin Hood, I'm not that way. I don't want to come through, burn everybody for $200 a ticket and then they can't afford to come see me again. Plus, I just don't think it's right. I don't think we need that much money. I just do what seems like the logical thing to do.

  Tom Petty

  Thinking, Tickets, Robins

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• The more important point, however, is not about what the money does. It's about what has to be done to get the money. The effect of the money might be (democratically) benign. But what is done to secure that money is not necessarily benign. To miss this point is to betray the Robin Hood fallacy: the fact that the loot was distributed justly doesn't excuse the means taken to secure it.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Taken, Mean, Missing

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• Inflation is not a Robin Hood, taking from the rich to give to the poor. Rather, it deals most cruelly with those who can least protect themselves. It strikes hardest those millions of our citizens whose incomes do not quickly rise with the cost of living. When prices soar, the pensioner and the widow see their security undermined, the man of thrift sees his savings melt away; the white collar worker, the minister, and the teacher see their standards of living dragged down.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Teacher, Men, White

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• There is no more compassionate and effective way to help poor people in New York City than to give to Robin Hood.

  Paul Tudor Jones

  New York, Cities, People

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• My message to David Cameron, as the head of our government, is to seriously think again about this Robin Hood tax, the tax to help the poor by taking a little bit from the rich.

  Keith O'Brien

  Thinking, Government, Messages

  "Cardinal accuses David Cameron of 'immoral' behaviour and favouring rich" by Shiv Malik, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2012.

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• My agent asked if I fancied Robin Hood and I thought: 'Yeah, why not?' I hadn't watched it, to be honest, but I'd seen bits and knew it was really popular Saturday family viewing with heaps of action. I thought it would be great fun. I was up for a good old play-fighting and the scripts were terrifically exciting.

  Joanne Froggatt

  Fun, Fighting, Play

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• People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody.

  Vincent Cassel

  People, Robins, Looks

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• It doth make a man better,' quoth Robin Hood, 'to bear of those noble men so long ago. When one doth list to such tales, his soul doth say, 'put by thy poor little likings and seek to do likewise.' Truly, one may not do as nobly one's self, but in the striving one is better.

  Howard Pyle

  Men, Self, Noble Man

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• I'm like Robin Hood. I rob the rich to make these projects come alive... not really rob. It's done with a smile.

  Imelda Marcos

  Robins, Done, Alive

  Fortune, 1979.

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• Underneath this little stone
  Lies Robert Earl of Huntington;
  No other archer was so good -
  And people called him Robin Hood.
  Such outlaws as he and his men
  Will England never see again.

  Roger Lancelyn Green

  Lying, Archer, Men

  Roger Lancelyn Green (2010). “The Adventures of Robin Hood”, p.242, Penguin UK

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• Westerns. A period gone by, the pioneer, the loner operating by himself, without benefit of society. It usually has something to do with some sort of vengeance; he takes care of the vengeance himself, doesn't call the police. Like Robin Hood. It's the last masculine frontier. Romantic myth. I guess, though it's hard to think about anything romantic today. In a Western you can think, Jesus, there was a time when man was alone, on horseback, out there where man hasn't spoiled the land yet.

  Clint Eastwood

  Jesus, Men, Thinking

  "Clint: The Life and Legend". Book by Patrick McGilligan, 1999.

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• I loved Laurel and Hardy and TV shows like 'Robin Hood' and 'Rama of the Jungle'.

  Stephen Lang

  Tv Shows, Robins, Rama

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