--- title: "11 Forlorn hope Quotes by 10 authors" description: "Browse 11 Forlorn hope quotes by 10 authors. Discover the best Forlorn hope sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/51a/anonymous-1_forlorn_for-his-mind-was-full-of-forlorn-hopes-d_1795377.jpg" --- > [For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/for-his-mind-was-full-of-forlorn-hopes-death-or-glory-charges-and/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/51a/anonymous-1_forlorn_for-his-mind-was-full-of-forlorn-hopes-d_1795377.jpg) > [The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hazlitt/the-love-of-letters-is-the-forlorn-hope-of-the-man-of-letters-his/) [William Hazlitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hazlitt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2cf/william-hazlitt-326_fame_the-love-of-letters-is-the-forlorn-hope_1197488.png) > [“There was but a single forlorn hope, and I took it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-rice-burroughs/there-was-but-a-single-forlorn-hope-and-i-took-it/) [Edgar Rice Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-rice-burroughs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/29a/edgar-rice-burroughs-2892_forlorn_there-was-but-a-single-forlorn-hope-and_176759.png) > [Apoplexie and lethargie, As forlorn hope, assault the enemy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guillaume-de-salluste-du-bartas/apoplexie-and-lethargie-as-forlorn-hope-assault-the-enemy/) [Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guillaume-de-salluste-du-bartas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/279/guillaume-de-salluste-du-barta_assault_apoplexie-and-lethargie-as-forlorn-hope_472813.jpg) > [Cricket is a game full or forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill-defined that their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/cricket-is-a-game-full-or-forlorn-hopes-and-sudden-dramatic-changes/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b1/george-orwell-57_business_cricket-is-a-game-full-or-forlorn-hopes_2220745.jpg) > [At first he was very discouraging, to my astonishment then, but now I fancy he did it as a forlorn hope to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-garrett-anderson/at-first-he-was-very-discouraging-to-my-astonishment-then-but-now-i/) [Elizabeth Garrett Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-garrett-anderson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/599/elizabeth-garrett-anderson-558_astonishment_at-first-he-was-very-discouraging-to-my_2945305.png) > [“All writing is a message in a bottle, cast into the sea in the forlorn hope of recognition and acceptance.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stewart-stafford/all-writing-is-a-message-in-a-bottle-cast-into-the-sea-in-the-forlorn/) [Stewart Stafford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stewart-stafford/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cc3/stewart-stafford-3104_acceptance_all-writing-is-a-message-in-a-bottle-cas_2908172.jpg) > [..he continues to cling to the forlorn hope that I will turn into one of those swooning females...and fling myself squeeling at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/he-continues-to-cling-to-the-forlorn-hope-that-i-will-turn-into-one/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb8/anonymous-1_female_he-continues-to-cling-to-the-forlorn-hop_3044188.jpg) > [To use Newton's words, our efforts up till this moment have but turned over a pebble or shell here and there on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-drake/to-use-newton-s-words-our-efforts-up-till-this-moment-have-but-turned/) [Frank Drake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-drake/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b4/frank-drake-29398_beach_to-use-newton-s-words-our-efforts-up-til_1022929.jpg) > [So, cutting the lashing of the waterproof match keg, after many failures Starbuck contrived to ignite the lamp in the lantern; then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/so-cutting-the-lashing-of-the-waterproof-match-keg-after-many/) [Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1a2/herman-melville-162_almighty_so-cutting-the-lashing-of-the-waterproof_1464761.jpg) > [“Surely the leader of a forlorn hope may ask himself that, and answer, without treachery to the expedition behind him, “One perhaps.”…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/surely-the-leader-of-a-forlorn-hope-may-ask-himself-that-and-answer/) [Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ba/virginia-woolf-49_adventure_surely-the-leader-of-a-forlorn-hope-may_858774.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/forlorn-hope/#itemlist", "name": "Forlorn hope Quotes", "numberOfItems": 11, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anonymous" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/for-his-mind-was-full-of-forlorn-hopes-death-or-glory-charges-and/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/51a/anonymous-1_forlorn_for-his-mind-was-full-of-forlorn-hopes-d_1795377.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/51a/anonymous-1_forlorn_for-his-mind-was-full-of-forlorn-hopes-d_1795377.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/51a/anonymous-1_forlorn_for-his-mind-was-full-of-forlorn-hopes-d_1795377.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands.” — Anonymous", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. 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Like all men, he clings to his illusions.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anonymous" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/he-continues-to-cling-to-the-forlorn-hope-that-i-will-turn-into-one/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb8/anonymous-1_female_he-continues-to-cling-to-the-forlorn-hop_3044188.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb8/anonymous-1_female_he-continues-to-cling-to-the-forlorn-hop_3044188.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb8/anonymous-1_female_he-continues-to-cling-to-the-forlorn-hop_3044188.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“..he continues to cling to the forlorn hope that I will turn into one of those swooning females...and fling…” — Anonymous", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 9, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "To use Newton's words, our efforts up till this moment have but turned over a pebble or shell here and there on the beach, with only a forlorn hope that under one of them was the gem we were seeking. Now we have the sieve, the minds, the hands, the time, and, particularly, the dedication to find those gems-no matter in which favorite hiding place the children of distant worlds have placed them.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Frank Drake" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-drake/to-use-newton-s-words-our-efforts-up-till-this-moment-have-but-turned/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b4/frank-drake-29398_beach_to-use-newton-s-words-our-efforts-up-til_1022929.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b4/frank-drake-29398_beach_to-use-newton-s-words-our-efforts-up-til_1022929.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b4/frank-drake-29398_beach_to-use-newton-s-words-our-efforts-up-til_1022929.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“To use Newton's words, our efforts up till this moment have but turned over a pebble or shell here and there…” — Frank Drake", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "So, cutting the lashing of the waterproof match keg, after many failures Starbuck contrived to ignite the lamp in the lantern; then stretching it on a waif pole, handed it to Queequeg as the standard-bearer of this forlorn hope. There, then, he sat, holding up that imbecile candle in the heart of that almighty forlornness. 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Is he to be blamed then if he is not that one? provided he has toiled honestly, given to the best of his power, and till he has no more left to give? And his fame lasts how long? It is permissible even for a dying hero to think before he dies how men will speak of him hereafter. His fame lasts perhaps two thousand years. And what are two thousand years? (asked Mr Ramsay ironically, staring at the hedge). What, indeed, if you look from a mountain top down the long wastes of the ages? The very stone one kicks with one’s boot will outlast Shakespeare. His own little light would shine, not very brightly, for a year or two, and would then be merged in some bigger light, and that in a bigger still. (He looked into the hedge, into the intricacy of the twigs.) Who then could blame the leader of that forlorn party which after all has climbed high enough to see the waste of the years and the perishing of the stars, if before death stiffens his limbs beyond the power of movement he does a little consciously raise his numbed fingers to his brow, and square his shoulders, so that when the search party comes they will find him dead at his post, the fine figure of a soldier?”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Virginia Woolf" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/surely-the-leader-of-a-forlorn-hope-may-ask-himself-that-and-answer/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ba/virginia-woolf-49_adventure_surely-the-leader-of-a-forlorn-hope-may_858774.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ba/virginia-woolf-49_adventure_surely-the-leader-of-a-forlorn-hope-may_858774.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ba/virginia-woolf-49_adventure_surely-the-leader-of-a-forlorn-hope-may_858774.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Surely the leader of a forlorn hope may ask himself that, and answer, without treachery to the expedition…” — Virginia Woolf", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/forlorn-hope/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/forlorn-hope/", "name": "Forlorn hope Quotes", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/forlorn-hope/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/51a/anonymous-1_forlorn_for-his-mind-was-full-of-forlorn-hopes-d_1795377.jpg" }, "description": "Browse 11 Forlorn hope quotes by 10 authors. 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