Quotes by : H. Rider Haggard

What a tricky and uncomfortable thing is conscience, that nearly always begins to trouble us at the moment....

Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water....

And now it appeared that there was a mysterious Queen clothed by rumour with dread and wonderful attributes,....

...For like a rugged tree you are hard and sound at the core.

Memory haunts me from age to age, and passion leads me by the hand--evil have I done, and with sorrow....

Women love the last blow as well as the last word, and when they fight for love they are pitiless as....

How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?

So they crucified their Messiah? Well can I believe it. That He was a Son of the Living Spirit would....

There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.....

And what, O Queen, are those things that are dear to a man? Are they not bubbles? Is not ambition but....