Quotes from She — H. Rider Haggard
1856–1925 England
← All quotes by H. Rider Haggard
9 quotes
There is no such thing as magic, though there is such a thing as a knowledge of the secrets of nature.
She (1887)
Truly time should be measured by events, and not by the lapse of hours.
She (1887)
Yea, all things live for ever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.
She (1887)
Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and this many-coloured pigment of imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them doth agree with another!
She (1887)
Ah, how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathereth it like water, but like water it runneth through his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, "See, he is a wise man!"
She (1887)
Time and time again have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been and passed away and been forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several; for Time eats up the works of man.
She (1887)
[T]hinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought.
She (1887)
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 bitter memories of what might have been.
She (1887)
[T]he food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of hope that we can bear to bite it.
She (1887)