G. A. Henty Quotes

George Alfred Henty (1832-1902)

G. A. Henty was a prolific English novelist and war correspondent. He is best known for his historical adventure stories that were popular in the late 19th century. (G. A. Henty Quotes)

“Everyone in the land has an equal chance. In war the bravest becomes a general, in peace the cleverest is chosen as a councillor.”
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“Friends of the king can no longer be grip hands with friends of the Commons.”
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“How is a boy’s mind to expand if he does not ask questions, and who should be so well able to answer his questions as his father?”
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“I do not say that there is no glory to be gained [in war]; but it is not personal glory. In itself, no cause was ever more glorious than that of men who struggle, not to conquer territory, not to gather spoil, not to gratify ambition, but for freedom, for religion, for hearth and home, and to revenge the countless atrocities inflicted upon them by their oppressors. ”
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“It is just as easy to be polite as to be rude, and men are served better for love than for fear.”
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“Look at their arts, their power of turning stone into lifelike figures, and above all, the way in which they can transfer their thoughts to white leaves, so that others, many many years hence, can read them and know all that was passing, and what men thought and did in the long bygone. Truly it is marvelous.”
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“Men are foolish creatures sometimes, even the wisest of them.”
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“Men make their own happiness, and a man may be respected even though only a slave.”
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“No one is strong in himself, but God gives strength.”
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“One don’t like setting out to help to bring a man to the gallus when you have got his money in your pocket.”
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“Our long wanderings have made a man out of him, too. They have not only strengthened his frame and hardened his constitution, but they have given stability to his character. He is thoughtful and prudent, and his advice will always be valuable, while of his courage I have no doubt.”
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“So that there is enough to keep life together, it matters little what it is.”
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“The fort has already been named the Fortress of Saint Peter and Saint Paul. The capital will be named alike after the patron saint and its founder ~Petersburg.”
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“The money might pay for food and shelter and clothes, but money cannot buy love, and that is what you gave, both of you; and it is for that that we now pay as well as we can.”
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“There is no good in knowing people when you are going right away from them in a short time, and may never meet them again.”
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“We cannot go into court with merely suspicions; we must get facts.”
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“Whether success will crown the effort, or whether God wills it otherwise, it is not for man to discuss; it is enough that the work is there, and it is our duty to do it.”
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“Women are always passionately certain that they are right, and neither counsel nor entreaty can get them to believe that there can be any other side to a case than that which they take.”
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