All H. Rider Haggard Quotes
- Adventurer: he that goes to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one way or another... Adventure
- Man's cleverness is almost indefinite, and stretches like an elastic band, but human nature is like an iron ring. You can go round and round… Almost Indefinite
- Passion is like the lightning, it is beautiful, and it links the earth to heaven, but alas it blinds! Alas
- Truly the universe is full of ghosts, not sheeted churchyard spectres, but the inextinguishable elements of individual life, which having once been, can never die,… Been
- How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star? Good
- Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no… Art
- Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange,… Brush
- Truly wealth, which men spend all their lives in acquiring, is a valueless thing at the last. Acquiring
- Wealth is good, and if it comes our way we will take it; but a gentleman does not sell himself for wealth. Doe
- The food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of hope that we can bear… Bear
- The Almighty gave us our lives, and I suppose He meant us to defend them, at least I have always acted on that, and I… Acted
- There are things and there are faces which, when felt or seen for the first time, stamp themselves upon the mind like a sun image… Faces
- The great wheel of Fate rolls on like a Juggernaut, and crushes us all in turn, some soon, some late All
- Truly time should be measured by events, and not by the lapse of hours. Events
- We were like confirmed opium-eaters: in our moments of reason we well knew the deadly nature of our pursuit, but we certainly were not prepared… Abandon
- The sky aft was dark as pitch, but the moon still shone brightly ahead of us and lit up the blackness. Beneath its sheen a… Ahead
- Now, after these things were done, the Pharaoh and his Queen drove through the hosts of Egypt in their golden chariot, and received the homage… Age
- Think then what it is to live on here eternally and yet be human; toage in soul and see our beloved die and pass to… Age
- Civilization is only savagery silver-gilt. Civilization
- The acorn of ambition often grows into an oak from which men hang. Acorn
- Everything has an end, if only you live long enough to see it. End
- As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me. Detestable
- Mistrust all men, and slay him whom thou mistrustest overmuch; and as for women, flee from them, for they are evil, and in the end… All
- It is a hard thing when one has shot sixty-five lions or more, as I have in the course of my life, that the sixty-sixth… Aside
- It is far. But there is no journey upon this earth that a man may not make if he sets his heart to it. There… Cannot Cross