Rafael Sabatini Quotes

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He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. And that was all his patrimony.

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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!

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An intelligent observation of the facts of human existence will reveal to shallow-minded folk who sneer at the use of coincidence in the arts of fiction and drama that life itself is little more than a series of coincidences.

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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 tomorrow will depend upon the impression made by your exterior today.

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There remained the sea, which is free to all, and particularly alluring to those who feel themselves at war with humanity.

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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."

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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.

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The love that is never to be realized will often remain a man's guiding ideal.

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Regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can inhabit.

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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.

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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.

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"Sir!" she checked him. "I think you are talking treason."
"I hope I am not obscure," said he.

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But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours.

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Open the history of the past at whatsoever page you will and there you shall find coincidence at work bringing about events that the merest chance might have averted. Indeed, coincidence may be defined as the tool used by Fate to shape the destinies of men and nations.

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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.

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It is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.

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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.

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

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It came to Mr. Blood, as he trudged forward under the laden apple-trees on that fragrant, delicious July morning, that man—as he had long suspected—was the vilest work of God, and that only a fool would set himself up as a healer of a species that was best exterminated.

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When all is said, a man's final judgment of his fellows must be based upon his knowledge of himself

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Gold has at all times been considered the best of testimonies of good faith...

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