Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado Quotes

“If any man accuseth me to my face, I will answer him with my mouth; but my tail is good enough to return an answer to such who traduceth [slanders] me behind my back.

—Sir Walter Ralegh”
― Marc Aronson, Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado

“If we are going to die anyway...why be cautious? Why not risk all now, at this moment, in this adventure?”
― Marc Aronson, Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado

“Even such is time, which takes in trust
Our youth, our joys, and all we have,
And pays us but with age, and dust;
Who in the dark and silent grave
When we have wandered all our ways
Shuts up the story of our days.
And from which earth and grave and dust,
The Lord will raise me up I trust.

—Sir Walter Ralegh's poetry”
― Marc Aronson, Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado

“For who so reaps renown above the rest,
With heaps of hate, shall surely be oppressed.

—Sir Walter Ralegh's poetry”
― Marc Aronson, Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado