Samuel Shellabarger > Quotes

“Forewarned is forearmed...”
― Samuel Shellabarger, Prince of Foxes

“But, learn that although all men are for sale, they don’t sell themselves to all buyers.”
― Samuel Shellabarger, Prince of Foxes

“Time heals wounds, my dear; it cannot rub out scars.”
― Samuel Shellabarger, Captain from Castile

“Curiosity, however sharp, must wait on dignity.”
― Samuel Shellabarger, Prince of Foxes

“Because the zest of life is effort, my son, not attainment.”
― Samuel Shellabarger, Captain From Castile: The Best-Selling Historical Epic

“Thomas B. Costain, Herman Wouk, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Kenneth Roberts, Edna Ferber, Sholem Asch, Ben Ames Williams, Frederic Wakeman, Frances Parkinson Keyes, Irwin Shaw, Budd Schulberg, Hamilton Basso, and, of course, Samuel Shellabarger.”
― Samuel Shellabarger, Prince of Foxes: The Best-Selling Historical Epic

“He who does not look forward remains behind.”
― Samuel Shellabarger, Captain from Castile

“Orsini did not wait for compliments. Reserve is best countered by reserve.”
― Samuel Shellabarger, Prince of Foxes

“And all of this from what source? A wayside farm in the Polesine. It illustrates the adage that the deeper the dung, the richer the rose. Who remembers the dung when the rose has blossomed?”
― Samuel Shellabarger, Prince of Foxes

“He realized all at once that ambition and love might not make good bedfellows, that a choice between them might be necessary.”
― Samuel Shellabarger, Prince of Foxes

“It’s what I’ve always said. To be alive is a reflection on one’s character.”
― Samuel Shellabarger, Prince of Foxes

“Speak again with Messer Simone and fish up what you can. Fair weather or foul, it’s the part of wisdom to be prepared.”
― Samuel Shellabarger, Prince of Foxes

“Your Excellence, it is not usually the obvious that is dangerous.”
― Samuel Shellabarger, Prince of Foxes

“Tenochtitlán, the once-magnificent, fell to Cortés. It lay, a heap of ruins, a charnel-house containing thousands of unburied corpses. Its overthrow was a masterpiece of military genius, valor, and enterprise. Everyone knew that it would take its place among immortal deeds of arms and felt proud to have had a share in it. Too bad that the once-glittering Valley with its palaces, gardens, cities, and temples had been laid waste, but such was war.”
― Samuel Shellabarger, Captain From Castile: The Best-Selling Historical Epic

“As there can be no peace among individual men where there is no law, so there can be no peace among states who are subject to no law. Treaties are futile; our holy religion itself fails to secure peace. The curse of Italy—it may be of the world—is that cities and states acknowledge no law superior to themselves. For only where law is, there is peace.”
― Samuel Shellabarger, Prince of Foxes

“What we cannot cure we must endure.”
― Samuel Shellabarger, Captain from Castile

“Pedro de Vargas, who had a respectful fondness for music and poetry but it the least skill in them, was drawn to Ortiz by the law of opposites and sought him out with the reverence of the untalented for the artist.”
― Samuel Shellabarger, Captain from Castile

“If good at times springs out of evil, to God's almighty dispensation, not to evil, be the praise. He makes man's villainy to serve Him: that is His perquisite. But let no man believe that he serves God by villainy. The kiss of Judas brought Our Blessed Lord to the Cross and, thus, salvation to mankind, yet Judas hanged himself.”
― Samuel Shellabarger