Alas Quote by 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 day, and…

— 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 asked for…

— 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 to say,…

— 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 in the…

— 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, indeed, he…

— 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 Eve adorned…

— 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, &c.' There's…

— H. Rider Haggard

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

“...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 and dying…

— H. Rider Haggard