Rafael Sabatini Quotes

Without entering here into a dissertation upon the historical romance, it may be said that in proper...

Out of his zestful study of Man, from Thucydides to the Encyclopaedists, from Seneca to Rousseau, he...

To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. you must change man, not sy...

Speed will follow when the mechanism of the movements is more assured.

Mind being the seat of the soul, and literature being the expression of the mind, literature, it fol...

Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.' 'Presumably because I sometimes betra...

We are all, he says, the sport of destiny. Ah, but not quite. Destiny is an intelligent force, movin...

And yet she was content to pair off with this dull young adventurer in the tarnished lace! It was, h...

Life is an ephemeral business, and we waste too much of it in judging where it would beseem us bette...

It is a futile and ridiculous struggle—but then... it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and r...

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

With you it is always the law, never equity.

What a man dares to do, he should dare to confess- unless he is a coward.

But he looks no more than thirty. He's very handsome-- so much you will admit; nor will you deny tha...

You behold him at the age of four-and-twenty stuffed with learning enough to produce an intellectual...

Oh, you are mad!" she exclaimed, quite out of patience."Possibly. But I like my madness.

I am very poor - for a know nothing, understand nothing. It is not a calamitous condition until it i...

I desire a society which selects its rulers from the best elements of every class and denies the rig...