Rafael Sabatini quotes

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. (Rafael Sabatini)
Truth is so often disconcerting. View quote
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They opposed brute force to reason and philosophy, and battalions of foreign mercenaries to ideas. As if ideas were to be impaled on bayonets! View quote
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But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours. View quote
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Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.' 'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence. View quote
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It was heroic!" "Heroic, is it? Bedad, it's epic! Ye begin to perceive the breadth and depth of my genius. View quote
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When we know all of whatever it may be, we can never do anything but forgive, madame. That is the profoundest religious truth that was ever written. It contains, in fact, a whole religion-the noblest religion any man could have to guide him. View quote
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A man must sometimes laugh at himself or go mad,' said he. ‘Few realize it. That is why there are so many madmen in the world. View quote
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Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are schooled in it, we live by it; and we rarely realize it. View quote
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To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. You must change man, not systems. View quote
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Regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can inhabit. (Rafael Sabatini)
Thirstily he set it to his lips, and as its cool refreshment began to soothe his throat, he thanked Heaven that in a world of much evil there was still so good a thing as ale. View quote
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But they were fated to misunderstand each other. View quote
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Only he who is without anything is without enemies. View quote
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Bestir, ladies! To your chaise, and see that you contrive to look your best. Soon the eyes of Guichen will be upon you, and the condition of your interior to-morrow will depend upon the impression made by your exterior to-day. View quote
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You have changed a certainty into a possibility, and I hate possibilities - God of God! I have lived on possibilities, and infernally near starved on them. View quote
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Mr Pollexfen was at one and the same time right and wrong-a condition much more common than is generally supposed. View quote
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"Sir!" she checked him. "I think you are talking treason." "I hope I am not obscure," said he. View quote
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... it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous. View quote
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In life we pay for the evil that in life we do. View quote
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Gold has at all times been considered the best of testimonies of good faith. (Rafael Sabatini)