Quote by H. Rider Haggard Download Open image ““Take up the tale," quoth Umslopogaas; "it is a merry one.”” — H. Rider Haggard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Great novels are above all great fairy tales . . . literature does not tell the truth but makes it up.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“A fairy tale...on the other hand, demands of the reader total surrender; so long as he is in its world, there must be for… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“I lifted the latch, and there he stood, dark and tall, the scholar's gown falling from his shoulders like the cloak of the Black… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“There was something about Great-Uncle Merry that was like the hills, or the sea, or the sky; something ancient, but without age or end.” — Susan Cooper Copy Share Image
“You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?” — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“A fairy tale with a twisted ending, one in which the sun sets like napalm on the prince and princess as they walk off,… — Laura Kasischke Copy Share Image
“Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads; take it in what sense tou whilt.” — William Shakespeare 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, especially considering that there is no woman in it—except Foulata. Stop, though! there is Gagaoola, if she was a woman, and not a fiend. But she was a hundred at least, and therefore not marriageable, so… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share
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 in the act, sometimes carried away into the heavens. But if that seed be good and heavy it may perchance travel a little way on the road it wills. It is well to try and journey… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share
