Feisty-heroine Quote by E.D.E.N. Southworth

“gentle admonition." "Gentle admonition! Do you call that gentle admonition? Why, uncle, you are enough to frighten most people to death with your fury.…

— E.D.E.N. Southworth

“What the foul fiend is the meaning of all this?”

— E.D.E.N. Southworth

“And no sooner had Cap been commanded, if she valued her safety, not to cross the water or climb the precipice than, as a…

— E.D.E.N. Southworth

“Go! Go! Go! Go!' said that officer, with an expression as though he considered our Cap an individual of the animal kingdom whom neither…

— E.D.E.N. Southworth

“It was your destiny - let us hope it will prove a glorious one.”

— E.D.E.N. Southworth

“There is not such a man as the doctor appears in this world more than once in a hundred years.”

— E.D.E.N. Southworth

“I wonder how long they'll keep me here? Forever, I hope. Until I get cured. I hope they won't cure me; I vow I…

— E.D.E.N. Southworth

“The stirring incidents of the last few months had spoiled her; the monotony of the last few weeks had bored her; and now she…

— E.D.E.N. Southworth

“Things difficult - almost to impossibility - can always be accomplished. Write that upon your tablets, for it is a valuable truth.”

— E.D.E.N. Southworth

“She loved old houses and old legends well enough to enjoy them; but was not sufficiently credulous to believe, or cowardly to fear, them.”

— E.D.E.N. Southworth

“The priest then turning toward the bride, inquired: "Wilt thou have this man to be thy wedded husband, etc., etc., so long as ye…

— E.D.E.N. Southworth

“Honor bright! Fair play is a jewel!”

— E.D.E.N. Southworth