Johnston McCulley > Quotes

“He has robbed none except officials who have stolen from the missions and the poor, and punished none except brutes who mistreat natives.”
― Johnston McCulley, The Mark of Zorro

“The persecution would cease instantly, for the commands of a Vega were made to be obeyed by all men of whatever rank.”
― Johnston McCulley, The Mark of Zorro

“But if I had lived to be twenty-nine years old like I am, and with all my chances made no enemy, I’d feel myself a failure.”
― Johnston McCulley, The Cowboy MEGAPACK ®: 25 Western Tales by Masters

“Gentlemen reformers, beware of this common practice of yours! beware of calling an act evil on Tuesday because that same act was evil on Monday!”
― Johnston McCulley, The Cowboy MEGAPACK ®: 25 Western Tales by Masters

“expect in many growed-up men you’d call sensible there’s a little boy sleepin’—the little kid they onced was—that still keeps his fear of the dark.”
― Johnston McCulley, The Cowboy MEGAPACK ®: 25 Western Tales by Masters

“For the last twenty minutes, having something to do, he had become himself again, had come to earth from that unsafe country of the brain”
― Johnston McCulley, The Cowboy MEGAPACK ®: 25 Western Tales by Masters

“It is but another instance of injustice, Fray Felipe said. For twenty years we, of the missions, have been subjected to it, and it grows. The sainted Junipero Serra invaded this land when other men feared, and at San Diego de Alcala he built the first mission of what became a chain, thus giving an empire to the world. Our mistake was that we prospered. We did the work, and others reap the advantages. They began taking out mission-lands from us, lands we had cultivated, which had formed a wilderness and which my brothers had turned into gardens and orchards. They robbed us of worldly goods. And not content with that they now are persecuting us. The mission-empire is doomed, caballero. The time is not far distant when mission roofs will fall in and walls crumble away. Some day people will look at the ruins and wonder how such a thing could come to pass.”
― Johnson McCulley

“I have missed the point in thinking of my own feelings.”
― Johnston McCulley, The Cowboy MEGAPACK ®: 25 Western Tales by Masters

“we had talked ourselves into silence.”
― Johnston McCulley, The Cowboy MEGAPACK ®: 25 Western Tales by Masters

“trust that you now perceive the same act may wear as many different hues of right or wrong as the rainbow, according to the atmosphere in which it is done.”
― Johnston McCulley, The Cowboy MEGAPACK ®: 25 Western Tales by Masters

“She knew her cow-boy lover, with all that he lacked, to be more than ever she could be, with all that she had. He was her worshipper still, but her master, too.”
― Johnston McCulley, The Cowboy MEGAPACK ®: 25 Western Tales by Masters

“Stealing from a thief is no crime, only irony.”
― Johnston McCulley, Zorro:

“Ha! A laggard at love-and in your pressence? What ails the man? Is he ill?”
― Johnston McCulley, The Mark of Zorro