H. Rider Haggard

As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me. ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#humor

Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten. ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#death #forget #forgetting #immortality #life

Mistrust all men, and slay him whom thou mistrustest overmuch; and as for women, flee from them, for they are evil, and in the end will destroy thee. ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#humor

There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature. ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#magic #magic-vs-nature #magic-vs-science #nature #power

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

#women #love

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

#cost #crime #give-and-take #good-and-evil #humanity

Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them tallies with another! ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#disagreement #dreams #faith #future #hopes

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

— H. Rider Haggard

#power #money

A sharp spear," runs the Kukuana saying, "needs no polish. ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#inspirational

The Almighty gave us our lives, and I suppose He meant us to defend them, at least I have always acted on that, and I hope it will not be brought up against me when my clock strikes. ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#against #almighty #always #brought #clock