Quotes by : Rafael Sabatini

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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