And yet she was content to pair off with this dull young adventurer in the tarnished lace! It was, he supposed, the sort of thing to be expected of a sex that all philosophy had taught him to regard as the maddest part of a mad species.

— Rafael Sabatini

But he looks no more than thirty. He's very handsome-- so much you will admit; nor will you deny that he is very wealthy and very powerful; the greatest nobleman in Brittany. He will make me a great lady.'' God made you that, Aline.

— Rafael Sabatini

Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.' 'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence.

— Rafael Sabatini

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

— Rafael Sabatini

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

— Rafael Sabatini

I desire a society which selects its rulers from the best elements of every class and denies the right of any class or corporation to usurp the government itself--whether it is the nobles, the clergy, the bourgeoisie, or the proletariat. For government by any class is fatal to the welfare of the whole,

— Rafael Sabatini

It is a futile and ridiculous struggle—but then... it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.

— Rafael Sabatini

Life is an ephemeral business, and we waste too much of it in judging where it would beseem us better to accept, that we ourselves may come to be accepted by such future ages as may pursue the study of us.

— Rafael Sabatini

Mind being the seat of the soul, and literature being the expression of the mind, literature, it follows, is the soul of an age, the surviving and immortal part of it.

— Rafael Sabatini

Oh, you are mad!" she exclaimed, quite out of patience." Possibly. But I like my madness.

— Rafael Sabatini