Quotes by H. Rider Haggard

About H. Rider Haggard:

Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of the Lost World literary genre. He was also involved in agricultural reform throughout the British Empire. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential.
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What a tricky and uncomfortable thing is conscience, that nearly always begins to trouble us at the moment of, or after, the event, not before, when it might be of some use.

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Shot the man! Shed human blood! Hid in a pool!" ejaculated Mr. Dove, overcome. "Really, Rachel, you are a most trying daughter. Why should you go out before daybreak and do such things?

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How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?

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Passion is like the lightening, it is beautiful and it links the earth to heaven, but it blinds.

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How true is the saying that the very highest in rank are always the most simple and kindly. It is from you half-and-half sort of people that you get pomposity and vulgarity

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

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Think then what it is to live on here eternally and yet be human; to age in soul and see our beloved die and pass to lands whither we may not hope to follow; to wait while drop by drop the curse of the long centuries falls upon our imperishable being...

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I am glad to see that you have enough imagination not to be altogether a fool... Yes, it is want of imagination that makes people fools; they won't believe what they can't understand.

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Yet man dies not whilst the world, at once his mother and his monument, remains. His name is lost, indeed, but the breath he breathed still stirs the pine-tops on the mountains, the sound of the words he spoke yet echoes on through space; the thought...

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Truly the universe is full of ghost, not sheeted churchyard spectres, but the inextinguishable elements of individual life, which having once been, can never die, though they blend and change, and change again for ever.

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It is far. But there is no journey upon this earth that a man may not make if he sets his heart to it. There is nothing, Umbopa, that he cannot do, there are no mountains he may not climb, there are no deserts he cannot cross; save a mountain and a a...

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Take what life can give you, Ana, and do not trouble about the offerings which are laid in the tombs for time to crumble.

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

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So they crucified their Messiah? Well can I believe it. That He was a Son of the Living Spirit would be naught to them, if indeed He was so.... They would care little for any God if he came not with pomp and power.

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I closed my eyelids, and imagination, taking up the thread of thought, shot its swift shuttle back across the ages, weaving a picture on their blackness so real and vivid in its details that I could almost for a moment think that I had triumphed o'er...

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Author Bio

  • NameH. Rider Haggard
  • DescriptionEnglish writer of adventure novels
  • AliasesHenry Rider Haggard; Sir Henry Rider Haggard; H. R. Haggard; H Rider Haggard
  • BornJune 22, 1856
  • DiedMay 14, 1925
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • WorksKing Solomon's Mines; She: A History Of Adventure
  • AwardsKnight Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire