106 Quotes by H. Rider Haggard

What is imagination? Perhaps it is the shadow of the intangible truth, perhaps it is the soul’s thought.

Now,” I whispered. Boom! boom! boom! went the three heavy rifles, and down came Sir Henry’s elephant dead as a hammer, shot right through the heart.

I am not a nervous man in a general way, and very little troubled with superstitions, of which I have lived to see the folly.

Yes,” I went on, “we do, indeed”; and again I smiled benignly, as I uttered that amazing lie. “We come to stay with you a little while, and to bless you by our sojourn. Ye will see, O friends, that I have prepared myself for this visit by the learning of your language.” “It is so, it is so,” said the chorus. “Only, my lord,” put in the old gentleman, “thou hast learnt it very badly.

There is no loneliness like the loneliness of crowds, especially to those who are unaccustomed to them.

I have noted that those who desire to do the most good often work the greatest harm.

It is curious to look back and realize upon what trivial and apparently coincidental circumstances great events frequently turn as easily and naturally as a door on its hinges.

The law of England is much more severe upon offences against property than against the person, as becomes a people whose ruling passion is money.

My empire is of the imagination.