57 Quotes by Rafael Sabatini

Thirstily he set it to his lips, and as its cool refreshment began to soothe his throat, he thanked Heaven that in a world of much evil there was still so good a thing as ale.

Mind being the seat of the soul, and literature being the expression of the mind, literature, it follows, is the soul of an age, the surviving and immortal part of it.

It is a futile and ridiculous struggle—but then... it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.

With you it is always the law, never equity.

Whilst I’ll take any risk that I must, I’ll take none that I needn’t.

We are all, he says, the sport of destiny. Ah, but not quite. Destiny is an intelligent force, moving with purpose.

Gold has at all times been considered the best of testimonies of good faith...

Life is an ephemeral business, and we waste too much of it in judging where it would beseem us better to accept, that we ourselves may come to be accepted by such future ages as may pursue the study of us.

Oh, you are mad!" she exclaimed, quite out of patience."Possibly. But I like my madness.