# Quote — Anthony Hope, The Prisoner of Zenda

> “The difference between you and Robert,” said my sister-in-law, who often (bless her!) speaks on a platform, and oftener still as if she were on one, “is that he recognizes the duties of his position, and you see the opportunities of yours.”
>
> “To a man of spirit, my dear Rose,” I answered, “opportunities are duties.”

- Author: [Anthony Hope](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-hope.md)
- Book: [The Prisoner of Zenda](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-hope/the-prisoner-of-zenda.md)
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> 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”.

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> 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.

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