Anthony Hope famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

In the deep, unwritten wisdom of life there are many things to be learned that cannot be taught. We never know them by hearing them spoken, but we grow into them by experience and recognize them through understanding. Understanding is a great experience in itself, but it does not come through instruction.
-- Anthony Hope

#Life #Understanding #Doe
Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?
-- Anthony Hope

#People #Telling The Truth #Falsehood
Good families are generally worse than any others.
-- Anthony Hope

#Good Family #Human Condition
I may not understand, but I am willing to admire.
-- Anthony Hope

#May #Admiration #Admire
You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.
-- Anthony Hope

#Yield #Temptation #Absurd
He is very fond of making things which he does not want, and then giving them to people who have no use for them.
-- Anthony Hope

#Giving #People #Use
Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.
-- Anthony Hope

#Writing #Genius #Aim
I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
-- Anthony Hope

#Ignorance #Wish #Littles
For my part, if a man must needs be a knave I would have him a debonair knave... It makes your sin no worse as I conceive, to do it Ã la mode and stylishly.
-- Anthony Hope

#Men #Needs #Knaves
There are moments when I dare not think of it, but there are others when I rise in spirit to where she ever dwells; then I can thank God that I love the noblest lady in the world, the most gracious and beautiful, and that there was nothing in my love that made her fall short in her high duty.
-- Anthony Hope

#Beautiful #Fall #Thinking
I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know).
-- Anthony Hope

#Money #Income #Want
Economy is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something you probably won't want.
-- Anthony Hope

#Want #Economy #Cases

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