Now the western tempest was scrawled all over with lines of intolerable light, while the inky head of the cloud-giant to the east was continually suffused with a white and deadly glow that came and went in pulses, as though a blood of flame was being pumped into it from the heart of the storm.

— H. Rider Haggard

H. Rider Haggard Quotes

Memory haunts me from age to age, and passion leads me by the hand – evil have I done, and with sorrow have I made acquaintance from age to age, and from age to age evil shall I do, and sorrow shall I know till my redemption comes.

— H. Rider Haggard

We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.

— H. Rider Haggard

Women love the last blow as well as the last word, and when they fight for love they are pitiless as a wounded buffalo.

— H. Rider Haggard

It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the more cynical and hardened we become; indeed, many of us are only saved by timely death from moral petrification, if not from moral corruption.

— H. Rider Haggard

And now let us love and take that which is given us, and be happy; for in the grave there is no love and no warmth, nor any touching of the lips. Nothing perchance, or perchance but bitter memories of what might have been.

— H. Rider Haggard

We may taste of every turn of chance – now rule as Kings, now serve as Slaves; now love, now hate; now prosper, and now perish. But still, through all, we are the same; for this is the marvel of Identity.

— 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.

— H. Rider Haggard

We white people think that we know everything.

— H. Rider Haggard

It is not wise to neglect the present for the future, for who knows what the future will be?

— 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.

— H. Rider Haggard

As for the girl, since she is well favoured, she shall brew the king’s beer, and be numbered amongst the king’s wives-unless, indeed, he is pleased to give her to me.

— H. Rider Haggard

Ah! If man would but see that hope is from within and not from without – that he himself must work out his own salvation.

— H. Rider Haggard

I am not a nervous man in a general way, and very little troubled with superstitions, of which I have lived to see the folly.

— H. Rider Haggard

My death is very near to me, and of this I am glad, for I desire to pursue the quest in other realms, as it has been promised to me that I shall do.

— H. Rider Haggard

There is no loneliness like the loneliness of crowds, especially to those who are unaccustomed to them.

— H. Rider Haggard

Everything has an end, if only you live long enough to see it.

— H. Rider Haggard

The acorn of ambition often grows into an oak from which men hang.

— H. Rider Haggard

Civilization is only savagery silver-gilt.

— H. Rider Haggard

We were like confirmed opium-eaters: in our moments of reason we well knew the deadly nature of our pursuit, but we certainly were not prepared to abandon its terrible delights.

— H. Rider Haggard

A sharp spear needs no polish.

— H. Rider Haggard
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