57 Quotes by Rafael Sabatini

But he looks no more than thirty. He's very handsome-- so much you will admit; nor will you deny that he is very wealthy and very powerful; the greatest nobleman in Brittany. He will make me a great lady.''God made you that, Aline.

Speed will follow when the mechanism of the movements is more assured.

Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.' 'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence.

Out of his zestful study of Man, from Thucydides to the Encyclopaedists, from Seneca to Rousseau, he had confirmed into an unassailable conviction his earliest conscious impressions of the general insanity of his own species.

I am very poor - for a know nothing, understand nothing. It is not a calamitous condition until it is realized.

But Guidobaldo scoffed at his qualms"Do you account my niece a peasant girl?" he asked. "Would you have her smirk and squirm at every piece of flattery you utter? So that she weds Your Highness what shall the rest signify?""I would that she loved me a little," complained Gian Maria foolishly.Guidobaldo looked him over with an eye that smiled inscrutably, and it may have crossed his mind that this coarse white-faced Duke was too ambitious.

You behold him at the age of four-and-twenty stuffed with learning enough to produce an intellectual indigestion in an ordinary mind.

What a man dares to do, he should dare to confess- unless he is a coward.

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.