Destiny Quote by Rafael Sabatini

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

— 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 an age,…

— 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 the inferior…

— 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? Ha, ha!”

— Rafael Sabatini

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

— Rafael Sabatini

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

— Rafael Sabatini