Hope Quote by Diana Holquist

“Any man over forty is a scoundrel.”

— Bernard Shaw

“He had her alone in the garden. Her moist lips. The moonlight in her eyes. A lesser man would be merely tempted. A greater…

— Diana Holquist

“Good men's actions are natural While a scoundrel's charity Is carefully planned to please.”

— Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri

“Not the title. Not the riches. Not the bravery. Not the glory. Just the man. The simple man, standing before her, looking into her…

— Diana Holquist

“Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life. A…

— Herman Melville

“The public will hear of nothing but rogues; and the only way in which poor authors, who must live, can act honestly by the…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“there are quiet victories and struggles, great sacrifices of self, and noble acts of heroism, in it - even in many of its apparent…

— Charles Dickens

“Good lack-a-daisy, Clara!" her aunt reproached her. "The man might dress improperly, but he's behaving like a perfect gentleman otherwise. And being wonderfully kind…

— Sabrina Jeffries

“With ever watchful eyes and bearing scars, visible and invisible, I headed North, full of a hazy notion that life could be lived with…

— Richard Wright

“The quote goes on about a woman scorned. Scorned. As if the jealousy of a lover could ever compete with the ferocity of a…

— Sarah A. Denzil

“He’d had, perhaps, too much wine. Enough to weaken a certain resolve, the one having to do with recognizing his own maturity, that host…

— Steven Erikson