57 Quotes by Rafael Sabatini

A scarlet flame suffused her face. 'You are very insolent,’ she said, lamely. ‘I’ve often been told so. But I don’t believe it.

Regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can inhabit.

To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. You must change man, not systems.

Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish.

Truth is so often disconcerting.

An intelligent observation of the facts of human existence will reveal to shallow-minded folk who sneer at the use of coincidence in the arts of fiction and drama that life itself is little more than a series of coincidences.

There remained the sea, which is free to all, and particularly alluring to those who feel themselves at war with humanity.

The love that is never to be realized will often remain a man’s guiding ideal.

Id is fery boedigal!” he said, his blue eyes twinkling. “Cabdain Blood is fond of boedry – you remember de abble-blossoms. So? Ha, ha!