💬 Quotes

"We seek him here, we seek him there, / Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. / Is he in heaven?—Is he in hell?— / That damned elusive Pimpernel."

"Men and women are all sunk so low nowadays, that they care for nothing save their own comfort and their own pleasure."

"League? What league? Ah, yes! A league of tender-hearted men and women, who love the excitement of a risky game, and care not a jot whether the neck that is stretched is that of an innocent man or a guilty aristocrat."

"A man's best friend is often his own secret; to share it is to invite betrayal."

"Curse the League! Curse the Scarlet Pimpernel! A thousand times dead, and yet alive—slipping through our fingers like water!"

"Love is blind, they say; but true love sees all, yet forgives all."

"An invisible man is a man of unmatched power, surely. But he is also a man of supreme isolation."

"To do such a thing would be to transcend the petty laws of men and nature alike."

"Visible man or not, I'm not going to be driven out of my own house by a pack of supernatural bogies."

"The great advantage of invisibility is that you can move through a crowd without being jostled, but the terrible disadvantage is that you are utterly alone."

"I became a muffled and invisible inhabitant of the unknown, brooding on my wrongs and my terrible discoveries."

"This invisible man is not a god, nor a spirit, but a criminal of a most singular and dangerous sort."

"Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him?"

"I teach you the Übermensch. Man is something that shall be overcome."

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."

"One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star."

"You look up when you long for elevation. And I look down because I am elevated."

"The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly."

"When you look for the bad in mankind expecting to find it, you surely will."

"The fog's gone, an' the hills are out, but I've got the rheumatiz."