H. Rider Haggard

Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.

— H. Rider Haggard

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

— H. Rider Haggard

“There is much that is noble in all religions, but there is also much that is terrible.”

— H. Rider Haggard

“To the young, indeed, death is sometimes welcome, for the young can feel. They love and suffer, and it wrings them to…

— H. Rider Haggard

“And now it appeared that there was a mysterious Queen clothed by rumour with dread and wonderful attributes, and commonly known by…

— 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

“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

It is curious to look back and realize upon what trivial and apparently coincidental circumstances great events frequently turn as easily and…

— H. Rider Haggard

“When will man learn what was taught to him of old, that faith is the only plank wherewith he can float upon…

— H. Rider Haggard

The food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of hope that…

— H. Rider Haggard

“Surely,' I said, 'you don't think that you are going to die because you dreamed you saw your old father; if one…

— H. Rider Haggard

“quite the right way to begin a book. And, besides, am I a gentleman? What is a gentleman? I don't quite know,…

— 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

“money is a living moving force; leave it still, and it accumulates; expend it, and it gratifies every wish; save it, and…

— H. Rider Haggard

“Well, it is not a good world -- nobody can say that it is, save those who wilfully blind themselves to facts.…

— H. Rider Haggard

It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the…

— H. Rider Haggard

Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs…

— H. Rider Haggard

“The unknown is generally taken to be terrible, not as the proverb would infer, from the inherent superstition of man, but because…

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“And what, O Queen, are those things that are dear to a man? Are they not bubbles? Is not ambition but an…

— H. Rider Haggard

I am not a nervous man in a general way, and very little troubled with superstitions, of which I have lived to…

— H. Rider Haggard

Truly the universe is full of ghosts, not sheeted churchyard spectres, but the inextinguishable elements of individual life, which having once been,…

— H. Rider Haggard

“Young sir, this merchant is in the right, and whatever his trade may be, his blood is as good as your own.…

— H. Rider Haggard

“And it is, by the way, from the presence of others that we really derive support in our dark hours of grief,…

— H. Rider Haggard

“What a tricky and uncomfortable thing is conscience, that nearly always begins to trouble us at the moment of, or after, the…

— H. Rider Haggard

“Take what life can give you, Ana, and do not trouble about the offerings which are laid in the tombs for time…

— H. Rider Haggard

“Shot the man! Shed human blood! Hid in a pool!" ejaculated Mr. Dove, overcome. "Really, Rachel, you are a most trying daughter.…

— H. Rider Haggard

Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten,…

— H. Rider Haggard

Memory haunts me from age to age, and passion leads me by the hand--evil have I done, and with sorrow have I…

— H. Rider Haggard

We may taste of every turn of chance - now rule as Kings, now serve as Slaves; now love, now hate; now…

— H. Rider Haggard

The law of England is much more severe upon offences against property than against the person, as becomes a people whose ruling…

— H. Rider Haggard

That which is alive hath known death, and that which is dead can never die, for in the Circle of the Spirit…

— H. Rider Haggard

We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we…

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

— H. Rider Haggard

My death is very near to me, and of this I am glad, for I desire to pursue the quest in other…

— 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

Ah! If man would but see that hope is from within and not from without - that he himself must work out…

— H. Rider Haggard

Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of…

— H. Rider Haggard

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