El Dorado Quotes

“Dear heart,” he murmured, “do not look on me with those dear, scared eyes of yours. If there is aught that puzzles you in what I said, try and trust me a little longer. Remember, I must save the Dauphin at all costs; mine honor is bound with his safety. What happens to me after that matters but little, yet I wish to live for your dear sake.”
― Emmuska Orczy, El Dorado: Further Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel

“The word forgiveness has only been spoken once these past two thousand years, and then it was spoken by Divine lips.”
― Emmuska Orczy, El Dorado

“Honor, my good Armand, is often cruel and seldom human. He is a godlike taskmaster, and we who call ourselves men are all of us his slaves.”
― Emmuska Orczy, El Dorado

“And 'twill be when you understand that your idol has feet of clay that you'll learn the real lesson of love," said Blakeney earnestly.

"Is it love to worship a saint in heaven, whom you dare not touch, who hovers above you like a cloud, which floats away from you even as you gaze? To love is to feel one being in the world at one with us, our equal in sin as well as in virtue. To love, for us men, is to clasp one woman with our arms, feeling that she lives and breathes just as we do, suffers as we do, thinks with us, loves with us, and, above all, sins with us. Your mock saint who stands in a niche is not a woman if she has not suffered, still less a woman if she has not sinned. Fall at the feet of your idol if you wish, but drag her down to your level after that-- the only level she should ever reach, that of your heart.”
― Emmuska Orczy, El Dorado