H. Rider Haggard

Quotes

• “Surely my lord will not hide his beautiful white legs!" exclaimed Infadoos regretfully. But Good persisted, and once onl...”
• “And what, O Queen, are those things that are dear to a man? Are they not bubbles? Is not ambition but an endless ladder ...”
• “I closed my eyelids, and imagination, taking up the thread of thought, shot its swift shuttle back across the ages, weav...”
• “It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the more c...”
• “Memory haunts me from age to age, and passion leads me by the hand--evil have I done, and with sorrow have I made acquai...”
• “And now let us love and take that which is given us, and be happy; for in the grave there is no love and no warmth, nor ...”
• “That which is alive hath known death, and that which is dead can never die, for in the Circle of the Spirit life is naug...”
• “So they crucified their Messiah? Well can I believe it. That He was a Son of the Living Spirit would be naught to them, ...”
• “Shall a mangrave his sorrows upon a stone when he hath but need to write them onthe water? Nay, oh /She/, I will live my...”
• “Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigme...”
• “And now it appeared that there was a mysterious Queen clothed by rumour with dread and wonderful attributes, and commonl...”
• “Shot the man! Shed human blood! Hid in a pool!" ejaculated Mr. Dove, overcome. "Really, Rachel, you are a most trying da...”
• “I am glad to see that you have enough imagination not to be altogether a fool... Yes, it is want of imagination that mak...”
• “Be careful when power comes to thee also, lest thou too shouldst smite in thine anger or thy jealousy, for unconquerable...”
• “What a tricky and uncomfortable thing is conscience, that nearly always begins to trouble us at the moment of, or after,...”
• “How true is the saying that the very highest in rank are always the most simple and kindly. It is from you half-and-half...”
• “We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouth...”
• “Take what life can give you, Ana, and do not trouble about the offerings which are laid in the tombs for time to crumble...”
• “Women love the last blow as well as the last word, and when they fight for love they are pitiless as a wounded buffalo.”
• “Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.”
• “Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought.”
• “...For like a rugged tree you are hard and sound at the core.”
• “Pride is a good horse if thou ridest wisely”