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1863–1933 England

Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, more famous as Anthony Hope (9 February 1863 – 8 July 1933), was an English novelist and playwright. He was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels but he is remembered best for only two books: The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) and its sequel Rupert of Hentzau (1898).

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Boys will be boys—And even that ... wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

The blemishes on honourable lineage are a delicate subject, and certainly this heredity we hear so much about is the finest scandalmonger in the world; it laughs at discretion, and writes strange entries between the lines of the “Peerages”.

The Prisoner of Zenda (1894)

For my part, if a man must needs be a knave, I would have him a debonair knave, and I liked Rupert Hentzau better than his long-faced, close-eyed companions. It makes your sin no worse, as I conceive, to do it à la mode and stylishly.

The Prisoner of Zenda (1894)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Anthony Hope (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.