Quote by H. Rider Haggard Download Open image ““Civilisation is only savagery silver-gilt.”” — H. Rider Haggard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“There is a difference between GOLD and SILVER, know where you stand” — Angel Phetheni Copy Share Image
“How did you know it was mine before?" "It's silver. No one in this village can afford silver. Except the council. But the others,… — Karpov Kinrade Copy Share Image
“Don't go digging for silver in somebody else's backyard when you've got gold in your own.” — Lattis R. Richards Copy Share Image
“So I learned then, that gold in it's native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and that only low-born metals excite the admiration of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that it is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“It is therefore impossible to understand the unification of humankind as a purely economic process. In order to understand how thousands of isolated cultures… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Love gilds us over and makes us show fine things to one another for a time, but soon the gold wears off, and then… — George Etherege Copy Share Image
“A writer should show the silver in his hands neither as bronze nor as gold; the gist of the matter is to show silver… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“And silver, though few people knew it, was a rarer metal than gold.” — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“...Mankind is not a race of noble savages - but primitive monsters hide inside us, elusive as Sasquatch...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
There is no loneliness like the loneliness of crowds, especially to those who are unaccustomed to them. — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man. — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
