Rafael Sabatini Quotes

• 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.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Art, Drama, Intelligent

  Rafael Sabatini (2013). “Jolly Roger: Captain Blood PLUS the Sea Hawk”, p.114, DoctorZed Publishing

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• In endeavor itself there is a certain dynamic entertainment, affording an illusion of useful purpose. With achievement the illusion is dispelled. Man's greatest accomplishment is to produce change. The only good in life is study, because study is an endeavor that never reaches fulfillment. It busies a man to the end of his days, and it aims at the only true reality in all this world of shams and deceits.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Reality, Men, Deceit

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

  Rafael Sabatini

  Moving On, Regret, Opportunity

  Rafael Sabatini (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Rafael Sabatini (Illustrated)”, p.2829, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Beer, Evil, Heaven

  Rafael Sabatini (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Rafael Sabatini (Illustrated)”, p.3315, Delphi Classics

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• 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 mass to a superior stratum, apostles of equality must ever be inferiors seeking to reduce their betters to their level. It follows that a nation that once admits this doctrine of equality will be dragged by it to the level, moral, intelletual and political, of its most worthless class.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Class, Ideas, Envy

  Rafael Sabatini (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Rafael Sabatini (Illustrated)”, p.5085, Delphi Classics

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

  Rafael Sabatini

  Life, Happiness, Laughter

  Scaramouche ch. 1 (1921)

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• Truth is so often disconcerting.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Truth Is

  Rafael Sabatini (2013). “Scaramouche Plus Bardelys the Magnificent”, p.9, DoctorZed Publishing

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• Only he who is without anything is without enemies.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Enemy

  Rafael Sabatini (2008). “Chronicles Of Captain Blood”, p.93, House of Stratus

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• When all is said, a man's final judgment of his fellows must be based upon his knowledge of himself

  Rafael Sabatini

  Men, Finals, Said

  Rafael Sabatini (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Rafael Sabatini (Illustrated)”, p.2233, Delphi Classics

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

  Rafael Sabatini

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• A man must sometimes laugh at himself or go mad,’ said he. ‘Few realize it. That is why there are so many madmen in the world.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Men, Mad, Laughing

  Rafael Sabatini (2015). “Captain Blood: Story Pirates”, p.59, 谷月社

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

  Rafael Sabatini

  Men, Divine, Divine Intervention

  Rafael Sabatini (2016). “Scaramouche (Diversion Classics)”, p.8, Diversion Books

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

  Rafael Sabatini

  War, Sea, Humanity

  Rafael Sabatini (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Rafael Sabatini (Illustrated)”, p.3068, Delphi Classics

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

  Rafael Sabatini

  Gold, Testimony, Good Faith

  Rafael Sabatini (2013). “Jolly Roger: Captain Blood PLUS the Sea Hawk”, p.74, DoctorZed Publishing

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• In life we pay for the evil that in life we do.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Evil, Pay

  Rafael Sabatini (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Rafael Sabatini (Illustrated)”, p.2954, Delphi Classics

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

  Rafael Sabatini

  Poor, Knows, Conditions

  Rafael Sabatini (2013). “Scaramouche Plus Bardelys the Magnificent”, p.229, DoctorZed Publishing

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

  Rafael Sabatini

  Ridiculous, Human Nature, Humans

  Rafael Sabatini (2013). “Scaramouche Plus Bardelys the Magnificent”, p.10, DoctorZed Publishing

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• He was suffering from the loss of an illusion.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Loss, Suffering, Illusion

  Rafael Sabatini (2013). “Scaramouche Plus Bardelys the Magnificent”, p.16, DoctorZed Publishing

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

  Rafael Sabatini

  True Love, Men, Ideals

  Rafael Sabatini (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Rafael Sabatini (Illustrated)”, p.8614, Delphi Classics

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• Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are schooled in it, we live by it; and we rarely realize it.’ – Book 3, Chapter 16

  Rafael Sabatini

  Book, Men, Hypocrisy

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• Open the history of the past at whatsoever page you will and there you shall find coincidence at work bringing about events that the merest chance might have averted. Indeed, coincidence may be defined as the tool used by Fate to shape the destinies of men and nations.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Fate, Past, Destiny

  Rafael Sabatini (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Rafael Sabatini (Illustrated)”, p.3115, Delphi Classics

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• But they were fated to misunderstand each other.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Rafael Sabatini (2013). “Jolly Roger: Captain Blood PLUS the Sea Hawk”, p.149, DoctorZed Publishing

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• It came to Mr. Blood, as he trudged forward under the laden apple-trees on that fragrant, delicious July morning, that man—as he had long suspected—was the vilest work of God, and that only a fool would set himself up as a healer of a species that was best exterminated.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Morning, Men, Apples

  Rafael Sabatini (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Rafael Sabatini (Illustrated)”, p.2979, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Philosophy, Ideas, Bayonets

  Rafael Sabatini (2015). “Scaramouche, A Romance of the French Revolution: the History Focus”, p.197, 谷月社

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• But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours. ~ Book 1, Chapter 9.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Book, Thrill, Madness

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