Top 100 Sabatini Quotes
#1. Before World War II, I was living a very cloistered existence, as most cartoonists do. The work I was pouring out did not come from any real, personal life experience; this was all the residue of the accumulation of Rafael Sabatini, O. Henry, all the short-story writers that I'd been reading.
Will Eisner
#3. 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.
Rafael Sabatini
#4. Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish.
Rafael Sabatini
#6. I hate possibilities - God of God! I have lived on possibilities, and infernally near starved on them.
Rafael Sabatini
#7. It came so soon and so fast. It's just overwhelming. Every time I think about it, I just can't believe it.
Gabriela Sabatini
#8. It's a great moment for Argentinean tennis, more on the men's side. I would like to see more on the women's side. I think we have to work a little bit more on that.
Gabriela Sabatini
#9. The love that is never to be realized will often remain a man's guiding ideal.
Rafael Sabatini
#10. Oh, you are mad!" she exclaimed, quite out of patience.
"Possibly. But I like my madness.
Rafael Sabatini
#11. We are all too prone to judge - upon insufficient knowledge.
Rafael Sabatini
#12. I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.
Gabriela Sabatini
#13. 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.
Rafael Sabatini
#15. What these guys are doing is great for Argentinean tennis. This is motivating other people.
Gabriela Sabatini
#16. We are all, he says, the sport of destiny. Ah, but not quite. Destiny is an intelligent force, moving with purpose.
Rafael Sabatini
#17. Maybe heaven was innocence, limbo was ignorance, and hell was fiery illumination.
Kimberly Sabatini
#19. I loved to play, I was competitive, I wanted to win, that was all I knew. In the first few years tennis is a game. Later, it becomes a job,
Gabriela Sabatini
#20. He was recovering his normal self amazingly under the inspiring stimulus of conflict.
Rafael Sabatini
#22. I was formerly so stuck into plans. I can now live more spontaneously. This I want not yet to give away.
Gabriela Sabatini
#23. I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships.
Gabriela Sabatini
#24. There remained the sea, which is free to all, and particularly alluring to those who feel themselves at war with humanity.
Rafael Sabatini
#25. What if there is endless free choice and not a single choice is right or wrong? Could every choice be a possibility? What if every option feels good or bad based only on our perception of it? Or if all the 'rules' aren't really rules? What would happen if just being in the moment was an option?
Kimberly Sabatini
#26. It's amazing, it doesn't feel like it has been 10 years since retirement.
Gabriela Sabatini
#27. When I finally held the trophy, it was just how I imagined it would be.
Gabriela Sabatini
#28. Robbery is a serious, shameful matter, Captain Blood." "I know it is. I've practised a good deal of it myself.
Rafael Sabatini
#30. 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.
Rafael Sabatini
#31. 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
Rafael Sabatini
#32. I was feeling a lot of confidence, so I wanted to take advantage of that and keep playing.
Gabriela Sabatini
#33. 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.
Rafael Sabatini
#34. You behold him at the age of four-and-twenty stuffed with learning enough to produce an intellectual indigestion in an ordinary mind.
Rafael Sabatini
#35. In Argentina at various tournaments, it's great. Every day it's full, everybody's crazy about tennis, everybody wants to play tennis.
Gabriela Sabatini
#36. 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.
Rafael Sabatini
#37. They opposed brute force to reason and philosophy, and battalions of foreign mercenaries to ideas. As if ideas were to be impaled on bayonets!
Rafael Sabatini
#38. I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court.
Gabriela Sabatini
#41. 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.
Rafael Sabatini
#42. Perfect harmony of body and mind are my key to personal balance and happiness.
Gabriela Sabatini
#43. He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.
Rafael Sabatini
#44. I hope no man will call me timorous; and yet I'ld as soon be called that as rash.
Rafael Sabatini
#46. I played Mary Joe Fernandez in the semifinals. She was winning the first set. Second set was very close. I started to play this aggressive game. I think I surprised them.
Gabriela Sabatini
#47. You make obstacle courses and hurricanes, I make T-shirt slogans.
Kimberly Sabatini
#48. [Blood upon killing Levasseur] 'I think that cancels the articles between us,' he said.
Rafael Sabatini
#50. 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.
Rafael Sabatini
#51. There is no worse hell than that provided by the regrets for wasted opportunities.
Rafael Sabatini
#52. I work out in a studio. Every day, regardless where I am, at least two hours. I need it. I can't cease it.
Gabriela Sabatini
#53. Id is fery boedigal!" he said, his blue eyes twinkling. "Cabdain Blood is fond of boedry - you remember de abble-blossoms. So? Ha, ha!
Rafael Sabatini
#54. 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.
Rafael Sabatini
#56. I'm following the players, and it's great. We've never had so many Top 10 big players like now. There's so many out there that are very close.
Gabriela Sabatini
#57. 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.
Rafael Sabatini
#58. When all is said, a man's final judgment of his fellows must be based upon his knowledge of himself
Rafael Sabatini
#59. If the windmill should prove too formidable," said he, from the threshold, "I may see what can be done with the wind.
Rafael Sabatini
#60. It does not make me ridiculous simply to be less foul than those about me.
Rafael Sabatini
#62. I lost more then 6 kilograms when I ceased with the top sport. That were all muscles. They are now gone.
Gabriela Sabatini
#63. 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.
Rafael Sabatini
#65. But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours. ~ Book 1, Chapter 9,
Rafael Sabatini
#66. For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.
Gabriela Sabatini
#67. That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
Gabriela Sabatini
#68. He was born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad." (the novel Scaramouche)
Rafael Sabatini
#69. Take your time, now,' said Mr. Blood. 'I never knew speed made by overhaste.
Rafael Sabatini
#70. You often show yourself without any faculty of deductive reasoning.
Rafael Sabatini
#71. I want children, but at the moment the liberty I have now finally, has a far too high value.
Gabriela Sabatini
#72. I could feel myself peeking over at him. He was like a seatbelt for my soul.
Kimberly Sabatini
#73. 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.
Rafael Sabatini
#74. 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.
Rafael Sabatini
#75. I want not, that everybody hears about. Then I can't longer be myself.
Gabriela Sabatini
#76. 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.
Rafael Sabatini
#77. 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;
Rafael Sabatini
#80. 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.
Rafael Sabatini
#81. What I'm doing, with my image, I have my perfumes. I've had that for almost 20 years, and I have like 14, 15 different perfumes now.
Gabriela Sabatini
#82. I travel a lot to promote the perfumes and to do the commercials.
Gabriela Sabatini
#83. To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. You must change man, not systems.
Rafael Sabatini
#84. I'm having a good time. Managing my things takes a lot of time.
Gabriela Sabatini
#85. A man may not fear to die, and yet be appalled by the form in which death comes to him.
Rafael Sabatini
#87. Peter Blood judged her- as we are all prone to do- upon insufficient knowledge.
Rafael Sabatini
#88. Look on the bright side ... " David said.
I waited. Then he roared with laughter.
"What?"
"I can't think of anything."
"Asshole.
Kimberly Sabatini
#91. 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.
Rafael Sabatini
#92. There were so much affairs of me created by the media ... of course I was not always a true single. I had some relations, once also to a famous pop star.
Gabriela Sabatini
#93. I have an office in Argentina, I go there every day, so I work.
Gabriela Sabatini
#94. Regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can
inhabit
Rafael Sabatini
#95. I am very poor - for a know nothing, understand nothing. It is not a calamitous condition until it is realized.
Rafael Sabatini
#96. I regret,' said he, 'that I have no cup; but, as you see, I can practise phlebotomy with a bottle.
Rafael Sabatini
#97. Gold has at all times been considered the best of testimonies of good faith ...
Rafael Sabatini
#98. Laughter broke from them. It spread into a roar of acclamation; for bluff is a weapon dear to every adventurer.
Rafael Sabatini
#100. I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction.
Gabriela Sabatini
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