Best 11 quotes of Anthony Hope on MyQuotes

Good families are generally worse than any others.

I may not understand, but I am willing to admire.

In the deep, unwritten wisdom of life there are many things to be learned that cannot be taught. We never know them by hearing them spoken, but we grow into them by experience and recognize them through understanding. Understanding is a great experience in itself, but it does not come through instruction.

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

Somehow love gives even to a dull man the knowledge of his lover's heart.

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

There are moments when I dare not think of it, but there are others when I rise in spirit to where she ever dwells; then I can thank God that I love the noblest lady in the world, the most gracious and beautiful, and that there was nothing in my love that made her fall short in her high duty.

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

You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.

Ah! but a man cannot be held to write down in cold blood the wild and black thoughts that storm his brain when an uncontrolled passion has battered a breach for them. Yet, unless he sets up as a saint, he need not hate himself for them. He is better employed, as it humbly seems to me, in giving thanks that power to resist was given to him ....

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.