Knows Future Quotes by H. Rider Haggard

Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their day, and…

— H. Rider Haggard

“The moon grows black before your eyes; soon there will be darkness—ay, darkness in the hour of the full moon. Ye have asked for…

— H. Rider Haggard

“Fourth reason and last: Because I am going to tell the strangest story that I remember. It may seem a queer thing to say,…

— H. Rider Haggard

There is no loneliness like the loneliness of crowds, especially to those who are unaccustomed to them.

— H. Rider Haggard

Mistrust all men, and slay him whom thou mistrustest overmuch; and as for women, flee from them, for they are evil, and in the…

— H. Rider Haggard

As for the girl, since she is well favoured, she shall brew the king's beer, and be numbered amongst the king's wives-unless, indeed, he…

— H. Rider Haggard

It is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man.

— H. Rider Haggard

“The Garden of Eden, no doubt, looked fair before man was, but I always think that it must have been fairer when Eve adorned…

— H. Rider Haggard

“Very good; then here we have it—'4 June, total eclipse of the moon commences at 8.15 Greenwich time, visible in Teneriffe—South Africa, &c.' There's…

— H. Rider Haggard

Adventurer: he that goes to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one way or another...

— H. Rider Haggard

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

— H. Rider Haggard

“Listen! What is life? It is a feather, it is the seed of the grass, blown hither and thither, sometimes multiplying itself and dying…

— H. Rider Haggard

There are things and there are faces which, when felt or seen for the first time, stamp themselves upon the mind like a sun…

— H. Rider Haggard

“Out of the vast main aisle there opened here and there smaller caves, exactly, Sir Henry said, as chapels open out of great cathedrals.…

— H. Rider Haggard

And now let us love and take that which is given us, and be happy; for in the grave there is no love and…

— H. Rider Haggard