Top 66 Rafael Sabatini Quotes
#1. A deadly sin that brings no evil material sequel to the satisfaction afforded by committing it is one thing. A deadly sin that gives you the stomach-ache is quite another.
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#2. 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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#3. And yet she was content to pair off with this dull young adventurer in the tarnished lace! It was, he supposed, the sort of thing to be expected of a sex that all philosophy had taught him to regard as the maddest part of a mad species.
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#4. You often show yourself without any faculty of deductive reasoning.
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#5. Take your time, now,' said Mr. Blood. 'I never knew speed made by overhaste.
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#6. He was born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad." (the novel Scaramouche)
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#8. From somewhere in the blue vault of heaven overhead came the joyous trilling of a lark, from below the silken rustling of the tideless sea.
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#10. It does not make me ridiculous simply to be less foul than those about me.
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#11. If the windmill should prove too formidable," said he, from the threshold, "I may see what can be done with the wind.
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#12. When all is said, a man's final judgment of his fellows must be based upon his knowledge of himself
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#13. Mind being the seat of the soul, and literature being the expression of the mind, literature, it follows, is the soul of an age, the surviving and immortal part of it.
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#14. Enemies." "What Christian resignation!" "As for hating you, of all people! Why ... I consider you adorable. I envy Leandre every day of my life. I have seriously thought of setting him to play Scaramouche, and playing lovers myself.
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#15. Id is fery boedigal!" he said, his blue eyes twinkling. "Cabdain Blood is fond of boedry - you remember de abble-blossoms. So? Ha, ha!
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#16. But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours. ~ Book 1, Chapter 9,
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#17. Laughter broke from them. It spread into a roar of acclamation; for bluff is a weapon dear to every adventurer.
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#18. Gold has at all times been considered the best of testimonies of good faith ...
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#19. I regret,' said he, 'that I have no cup; but, as you see, I can practise phlebotomy with a bottle.
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#20. I am very poor - for a know nothing, understand nothing. It is not a calamitous condition until it is realized.
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#21. Regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can
inhabit
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#22. It is not human to be wise,' said Blood. 'It is much more human to err, though perhaps exceptional to err on the side of mercy.
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#24. I recognize myself for part of this mad world, I suppose. You wouldn't have me take it seriously? I should lose my reason utterly if I did;
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#25. Peter Blood judged her- as we are all prone to do- upon insufficient knowledge.
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#27. A man may not fear to die, and yet be appalled by the form in which death comes to him.
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#28. To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. You must change man, not systems.
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#29. There was a great historian lost in Wolverstone. He had the right imagination that knows just how far it is safe to stray from the truth and just how far to colour it so as to change its shape for his own purposes.
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#32. 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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#34. He was recovering his normal self amazingly under the inspiring stimulus of conflict.
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#35. We are all, he says, the sport of destiny. Ah, but not quite. Destiny is an intelligent force, moving with purpose.
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#37. I admit that it is audacious," said Scaramouche. "But at your time of life you should have learnt that in this world nothing succeeds like audacity.
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#38. We are all too prone to judge - upon insufficient knowledge.
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#39. Oh, you are mad!" she exclaimed, quite out of patience.
"Possibly. But I like my madness.
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#40. The love that is never to be realized will often remain a man's guiding ideal.
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#41. I hate possibilities - God of God! I have lived on possibilities, and infernally near starved on them.
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#42. Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish.
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#43. Thirstily he set it to his lips, and as its cool refreshment began to soothe his throat, he thanked Heaven that in a world of much evil there was still so good a thing as ale.
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#44. There is no worse hell than that provided by the regrets for wasted opportunities.
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#45. Inshore, across the pellucid jade-green waters of the bay, gently ruffled by the north-easterly breeze that was sweetly tempering the torrid heat of the sun, rose the ramage of masts and spars of the shipping riding there at anchor.
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#47. [Blood upon killing Levasseur] 'I think that cancels the articles between us,' he said.
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#48. I hope no man will call me timorous; and yet I'ld as soon be called that as rash.
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#49. He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.
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#50. Out of his zestful study of Man, from Thucydides to the Encyclopaedists, from Seneca to Rousseau, he had confirmed into an unassailable conviction his earliest conscious impressions of the general insanity of his own species.
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#51. 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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#52. Most of this world's misery is the fruit not as priests tell us of wickedness, but of stupidity ...
And we know that of all stupidities he considered anger the most deplorable.
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#53. You behold him at the age of four-and-twenty stuffed with learning enough to produce an intellectual indigestion in an ordinary mind.
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#54. Life is an ephemeral business, and we waste too much of it in judging where it would beseem us better to accept, that we ourselves may come to be accepted by such future ages as may pursue the study of us.
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#55. The moments that followed were full of interest. A stillness, a brooding, expectant stillness, fell upon the company - and it numbered a round dozen - about Lord Gervase's richly appointed board. In the soft candlelight the oval table
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#56. A scarlet flame suffused her face. 'You are very insolent,' she said, lamely. 'I've often been told so. But I don't believe it.
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#58. Robbery is a serious, shameful matter, Captain Blood." "I know it is. I've practised a good deal of it myself.
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#59. 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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#60. [W]e are all savages under the cloak that civilization fashions for us.
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#61. I am afraid, monsieur, you will have to kill me first, and I have a prejudice against being killed before nine o'clock.
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#63. It is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.
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#64. But he looks no more than thirty. He's very handsome
so much you will admit; nor will you deny that he is very wealthy and very powerful; the greatest nobleman in Brittany. He will make me a great lady.'
'God made you that, Aline.
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#65. 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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