The Scarlet Pimpernel

What are ten significant quotes in The Scarlet Pimpernel?

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“They seek him here, they seek him there
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere
Is he in heaven or is he in hell?
That demned elusive Pimpernel”

“Money and titles may be hereditary," she would say, "but brains are not...."

“Sink me! Your taylors have betrayed you! T'wood serve you better to send THEM to Madam Guillotine”

“We must prove to the world that we are all nincompoops.”

“Thus human beings judge of one another, superficially, casually, throwing contempt on one another, with but little reason, and no charity.”

“She, at least, ought to have known that he was wearing a mask, and having found that out, she should have torn it from his face, whenever they were alone together....Her love for him had been paltry and weak, easily crushed by her own pride”

“It is only in our beautiful France that wholesale slaughter is done lawfully, in the name of liberty and of brotherly love”

“Anonymity crowned him as if t'were the halo of romantic glory.”

“A woman's heart is such a complex problem—the owner thereof is often most incompetent to find the solution of this puzzle.”

“A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.”

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The Scarlet Pimpernel