Allan Quatermain Quotes by H. Rider Haggard

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. ~ Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard "It is not wise to neglect the present for the future, for who knows what the future will be, Incubu?" ~ Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard "I love thee, Macumazahn, for we have grown grey together, and there is that between us that cannot be seen, and yet is too strong for breaking." ~ Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard "Passion is like the lightning, it is beautiful, and it links the earth to heaven, but alas it blinds!" ~ Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard 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. ~ Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard "Adventurer" -- he that goes out to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one way or another. ~ Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their day, and all must go. ~ Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard Who has not in his great grief felt a longing to look upon the outward features of the universal Mother; to lie on the mountains and watch the clouds drive across the sky and hear the rollers break in thunder on the shore, to let his poor struggling life mingle for a while in her life; to feel the slow beat of her eternal heart, and to forget his woes . . . ~ Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard Man's cleverness is almost indefinite, and stretches like an elastic band, but human nature is like an iron ring. You can go round and round it, you can polish it highly, you can even flatten it a little on one side, whereby you will make it bulge out the other, but you will NEVER, while the world endures and man is man, increase its total circumference. ~ Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard Civilization is only savagery silver-gilt. ~ Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard