Rafael Sabatini

“If Mr. Blood had condescended to debate the matter with these ladies, he might have urged that having had his fill of…

— Rafael Sabatini

The love that is never to be realized will often remain a mans guiding ideal.

— Rafael Sabatini

Gold has at all times been considered the best of testimonies of good faith...

— Rafael Sabatini

“Peter Blood judged her- as we are all prone to do- upon insufficient knowledge.”

— Rafael Sabatini

“Mind being the seat of the soul, and literature being the expression of the mind, literature, it follows, is the soul of…

— Rafael Sabatini

“Dragostea ce nu ajunge sa se materializeze niciodata ramane adesea idealul care-l ghideaza pe om.”

— Rafael Sabatini

Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish.

— Rafael Sabatini

But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours. ~ Book 1, Chapter 9,

— Rafael Sabatini

“The inevitable, tragic corollary of civilization is populace.”

— Rafael Sabatini

The idea of equality is a by-product of the sentiment of envy. Since it must always prove beyond human ower to raise…

— Rafael Sabatini

“Laughter broke from them. It spread into a roar of acclamation; for bluff is a weapon dear to every adventurer.”

— Rafael Sabatini

When all is said, a man's final judgment of his fellows must be based upon his knowledge of himself

— Rafael Sabatini

“Id is fery boedigal!" he said, his blue eyes twinkling. "Cabdain Blood is fond of boedry - you remember de abble-blossoms. So?…

— Rafael Sabatini

They opposed brute force to reason and philosophy, and battalions of foreign mercenaries to ideas. As if ideas were to be impaled…

— Rafael Sabatini

...it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.

— Rafael Sabatini

Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are…

— Rafael Sabatini

“He still had, you see, illusions about Christians.”

— Rafael Sabatini

“He vowed that the thought of her should continue ever before him to help him keep his hands as clean as a…

— Rafael Sabatini

Truth is so often disconcerting.

— Rafael Sabatini

“We are all, he says, the sport of destiny. Ah, but not quite. Destiny is an intelligent force, moving with purpose.”

— Rafael Sabatini

“Life can be infernally complex,’ he said.”

— Rafael Sabatini

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

— Rafael Sabatini

The love that is never to be realized will often remain a man's guiding ideal.

— Rafael Sabatini

“To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. you must change man, not systems. Can you and our…

— Rafael Sabatini

“I am not one of your repentant sinners, Kenneth. I have lived my life—God, what a life!—and as I have lived I…

— Rafael Sabatini