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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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,…

— 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…

— 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,…

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

— 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…

— 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…

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

— 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…

— H. Rider Haggard

How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?

— H. Rider Haggard

“Ignosi bound the diadem upon his brows. Then advancing, he placed his foot upon the broad chest of his headless foe and…

— H. Rider Haggard

“Now the western tempest was scrawled all over with lines of intolerable light, while the inky head of the cloud-giant to the…

— H. Rider Haggard

“The moon went slowly down in loveliness; she departed into the depth of the horizon, and long veil-like shadows crept up the…

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Think then what it is to live on here eternally and yet be human; toage in soul and see our beloved die…

— H. Rider Haggard

I have never observed that the religious are more eager to die than the rest of us poor mortals.

— H. Rider Haggard

“How true is the saying that the very highest in rank are always the most simple and kindly. It is from you…

— H. Rider Haggard

“Twala's soldiers went down before his axe like corn before the hail”

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We were like confirmed opium-eaters: in our moments of reason we well knew the deadly nature of our pursuit, but we certainly…

— H. Rider Haggard

“Let him who reads forgive the intrusion of a dream into a history of fact. But it came so home to me—I…

— H. Rider Haggard