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Scarlet Pimpernel Quotes

7 quotes from 7 authors

When Scarlet Pimpernel pops up, you picture a dashing hero, yet the seven quotes here twist that image. Some mock his over‑rated fame, others reminisce about Victorian chases, and a few celebrate novels beside adventure. If this blend of satire and nostalgia appeals, you may also like pages on daring literary rogues.

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Be like a hero and save your people like legend the SCARLET PIMPERNEL…

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“This Jackson bloke was the ruddy Scarlet Pimpernel, here, there and everywhere, always one step ahead of Barry. And everywhere he went,…

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“Between the ages of ten and fifteen in St. Petersburg, I must have read more fiction and poetry—English, Russian and French—than in…

Vladimir Nabokov

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The Scarlet Pimpernel is the most over-rated human being since Judas Iscariot won the A.D.31 'Best Disciple' competition.

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I have tons of rescuing fantasies based on the movies I saw when I was growing up. I wanted to be Robin…

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“History was my favourite subject at school and in my spare time I read historical novels voraciously from Heidi to the Scarlet…

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I have so often been asked the question: "But how did you come to think of The Scarlet Pimpernel?" And my answer…

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