List of Rafael Sabatini Quotes

Do You Know, André, I Sometimes Think That You Have No Heart.' 'presumably Because I Sometimes Betray Intelligence.

But They Were Fated To Misunderstand Each Other.

But I Like My Madness. There Is A Thrill In It Unknown To Such Sanity As Yours. ~ Book 1, Chapter 9.

They Opposed Brute Force To Reason And Philosophy, And Battalions Of Foreign Mercenaries To Ideas. As If Ideas Were To Be Impaled On Bayonets!

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.

He Was Suffering From The Loss Of An Illusion.

The Love That Is Never To Be Realized Will Often Remain A Man's Guiding Ideal.

Gold Has At All Times Been Considered The Best Of Testimonies Of Good Faith.

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.

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.’ – Book 3, Chapter 16

...it Is Human Nature, I Suppose, To Be Futile And Ridiculous.

There Remained The Sea, Which Is Free To All, And Particularly Alluring To Those Who Feel Themselves At War With Humanity.