Literary Birthday – 9 February – Anthony Hope
Anthony Hope was born 9 February 1863, and died 8 July 1933.
Anthony Hope Quotes
- For my part, if a man must needs be a knave I would have him a debonair knave… It makes your sin no worse as I conceive, to do it à la mode and stylishly.
- Good families are generally worse than any others.
- Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn’t it?
- Economy is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something you probably won’t want.
- I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
- You oughtn’t to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.
- Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.
Anthony Hope was an English novelist and playwright. He was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels but he is remembered best for The Prisoner of Zenda. The novel’s setting is the fictional country of Ruritania, which created a genre known as Ruritanian romance. According to Wikipedia these are ‘typically swashbuckling adventure novels, tales of high romance and intrigue, centered on the ruling classes, almost always aristocracy and royalty.’
Source for image: Alfred Ellis & Walery, British (active mid- to late-19th century), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anthony_Hope_Hawkins_by_Alfred_Ellis_%26_Walery.jpg
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