Flora Hope

“...a man cannot be held to write down in cold blood the wild and black thoughts that storm his brain when an uncontrollable passion has battered a breach for them. He is better employed, as it humbly seems to me, in giving thanks that power to resist was vouchsafed to him, than in fretting over wicked impulses which come unsought and extort an unwilling hospitality from the weakness of our nature.”
― Anthony Hope, The Prisoner of Zenda

“...A man's love and a man's work are, when they seem to prosper, of all things the sweetest, and their union in one his life's consummation.”
― Anthony Hope, The Heart of Princess Osra

“Oh! what a poor thing is human life in is best enjoyments! subjected to imaginary evils, when it has no real ones to disturb it; and that can be made as effectually unhappy by its apprehensions of remote contingencies, as if it was struggling with the pangs of a present distress!”
― Samuel Richardson, Pamela

“I know what I'd do in the matter, but I'm a dedicated villain. -Roland Otton”
― Patricia Veryan, The Tyrant