Ethelred Hero Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

“She laughed at herself when she saw that she had expected to be at once a heretic and a returned hero; she was very…

— Sinclair Lewis

“She came into the room with an easy gracefulness which would at once command the respect of any lunatic, for easiness is one of…

— Bram Stoker

“Ah,the pure shine of a few moments of heroism, high courage, and derring-do! In its light we genuflect before the Hero, we bask inthe…

— Oakley Hall

“She looked into the eyes of many of them as they passed away, like some sort of angel of death. Some were frightened, some…

— Jacques Antoine

“There is a great deal of solemn discussion about The Novel. In fact, every novel is an answer to the ancient plea, 'Tell us…

— Pamela Brown

“...and no new difficulty arising, no sudden recollection, no unexpected summons, no impertinent intrusion to disconcert their measures, my heroine was most unnaturally able…

— Jane Austen

“She was fierce in the presence of death, heroic even, as she was at no other time. Its threat gave her direction, clarity, audacity.”

— Toni Morrison

“Deeds of heroism are wrought here more than those of romance, when, defying torture, and braving death itself, the fugitive voluntarily threads his way…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“CHAPTER IX—A MERRY END TO MIRTH”

— Victor Hugo

“The unhorsing, wounding and capture of the enemy was sought, for corpses fetched little ransom, but in the blind chaos of the charge, death…

— Robyn Young

“There were many who went in huddled procession, They knew not wither, But, at any rate, success or calamity Would attend all in equality.…

— Stephen Crane

“And then they were at Tristran's old home, where his sister waited for him, and there was a steaming breakfast on the stove and…

— Neil Gaiman