# The Mark of Zorro

- Author: [Johnston McCulley](https://www.leafyquotes.com/johnston-mcculley.md)
- Quotes: 9
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/johnston-mcculley/the-mark-of-zorro

## Quotes

> “My men must do something to pass the time, and they may as well search the house. You have nothing you wish to hide?”
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> “Recognizing the identity of my guests, it might be well to hide the wine-jugs,” Fray Felipe said.

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> “Shall it be that I never hear of anything except deeds of bloodshed and violence? Would it be possible in these turbulent times for a man to listen to words of wisdom regarding music or the poets?”

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> “As a matter of fact, I am up early because I must make a confounded trip to my hacienda, a journey of some ten miles, to inspect the flocks and herds. Never become a wealthy man, Sergeant Gonzales, for wealth asks too much of a man.”
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> “Something tells me that never shall I suffer on that account,” said the sergeant, laughing.

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> Don Carlos and his wife hurried across the room and sat down beside Don Diego.
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> “I fear you do not understand women, my friend,” Don Carlos said. “Never must you take a woman’s answer for the last. She always may change her mind. A woman likes to keep a man dangling, likes to make him blow cold with fear and hot with anticipation. Let her have her moods, my friend. In the end, I am sure, you shall have your way.”

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> “Women are fitful and filled with fancies, señor,” he said. “At times they will rail at those whom they in reality adore. There is no telling the workings of a woman’s mind—she cannot explain it with satisfaction herself.”

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> Action expressed in a wrong channel is worse than no action at all.

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> “I give aid to no spawn of the devil!” Fray Felipe said.
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> “Ha! Now you grow angry, and that is against your principles! Is it not the part of a robed fray to receive what comes his way and give thanks for it, no matter how much it chokes him? Answer me that, angry one!”
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> “You have about as much knowledge of a Franciscan’s principles and duties as has the horse you ride!”
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> “I ride a wise horse, a noble animal. He comes when I call and gallops when I command. Do not deride him until you ride him. Ha! An excellent jest!”
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> “Imbecile!”

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> “Landlord, more wine! The only manner in which to stop this raucous boaster is to make his wide throat so slick with wine that the words cannot climb out of it!”

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> “It is an insult to my blade to have it enter your body!”

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