"As I grow older, I regret to say……" — H. Rider Haggard
"As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me."
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37 Quotes by H. Rider Haggard
H. Rider Haggard has 37 quotes on this site.
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Adventurer: he that goes to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one…
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Man's cleverness is almost indefinite, and stretches like an elastic band, but human nature is like an iron ring. You…
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Passion is like the lightning, it is beautiful, and it links the earth to heaven, but alas it blinds!
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Truly the universe is full of ghosts, not sheeted churchyard spectres, but the inextinguishable elements of individual life, which having…
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How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?
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Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to…
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Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured…
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Truly wealth, which men spend all their lives in acquiring, is a valueless thing at the last.
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Wealth is good, and if it comes our way we will take it; but a gentleman does not sell himself…
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The food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of…
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The Almighty gave us our lives, and I suppose He meant us to defend them, at least I have always…
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There are things and there are faces which, when felt or seen for the first time, stamp themselves upon the…
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More Detestable Quotes
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Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll…
— Charles Bukowski
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It is less injury to Him to deny His being, than to deny the purity of it; the one makes…
— Stephen Charnock
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When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as…
— Confucius
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Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of…
— William Ralph Inge
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Physiological experiment on animals is justifiable for real investigation, but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity.
— Charles Darwin
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The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less…
— William E. Gladstone
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Whether these characters are lovable or detestable, they're lovable or detestable in a TV way - defined by a minimal…
— Jonathan Rosenbaum
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In some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him--all that mysterious life of the wilderness…
— Joseph Conrad
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You see, the problem with me is I'm so good even my friends think I'm doing something wrong. Flair and…
— Don King
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It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so…
— Gabrielle Hamilton
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