“The men of Spain held ground for a little while, but then their hearts broke under their fine red coats, and they ran away to hide in the jungle.”

John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck - “The men of Spain held ground for a...” 1

Similar quotes

“... he broke her heart and made her crave his touch even while she was trying to figure out where to hide his body.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon
Read more

“His kiss held his heart. It broke hers.”

Nalini Singh
Read more

“All that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the jungles, in the hearts of wild men.”

Joseph Conrad
Read more

“I had never seen the jungle. They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that I was Bagheera - the Panther - and no man's plaything, and I broke the silly lock with one blow of my paw and came away; and because I had learned the ways of men, I became more terrible in the jungle than Shere Khan.”

Rudyard Kipling
Read more

“Bright, dreadful flashes of lightning rent the darkness and Kali's reply was drowned by a peal of thunder which shook heaven and the wilderness. Simultaneously a whirlwind broke out, tugged the boughs of the tree swept away in the twinkling of an eye the camp-fire, seized the embers, still burning under the ashes, and carried them with sheaves of sparks into the jungle.”

Henryk Sienkiewicz
Read more