Robin Hood Riding

Famous quotes containing the words robin hood, robin, hood and/or riding:

    It is now many years that men have resorted to the forest for fuel and the materials of the arts: the New Englander and the New Hollander, the Parisian and the Celt, the farmer and Robin Hood, Goody Blake and Harry Gill; in most parts of the world, the prince and the peasant, the scholar and the savage, equally require still a few sticks from the forest to warm them and cook their food. Neither could I do without them.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Diamonds are a girl’s best friend.
    —Leo Robin (b. 1900)

    Ben Battle was a soldier bold,
    And used to war’s alarms;
    But a cannon-ball took off his legs,
    So he laid down his arms.
    —Thomas Hood (1799–1845)

    There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
    —Laura Riding (1901–1991)