Quotes of Highwayman - somelinesforyou

“ Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their wives. ”

- John Gay

“ It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even. ”

- Nicolas Cage

“ We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. It was only yesterday, but what a gulf between now and then! Then was the old world. Stage-coaches, more or less swift, riding-horses, pack-horses, highwaymen, knights in armor, Norman invaders, Roman legions, Druids, Ancient Britons painted blue, and so forth — all these belong to the old period… ”

- William Makepeace Thackeray

“ The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods; it remains a perpetuated crime, can never be anything but the symbol of a crime. It is no more entitled to respect than is the flag of a pirate. ”

- Mark Twain
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