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H. Rider Haggard on Wedding

1856–1925 England

← All quotes by H. Rider Haggard

4 quotes

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

Allan Quatermain (1887)

Those who go secretly, go evilly; and foul birds love to fly at night.

Cleopatra (1889)

For what man is there who does not prize that gift most rare and beautiful, that one perfect thing which no gold can buy – a woman's unfeigned love?

Cleopatra (1889)

. . . even a king may choose his own wife sometimes.

The Ancient Allan (1920)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: H. Rider Haggard (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.