Frasi di Rafael Sabatini (29 frasi) | Citazioni e frasi celebri

This is the opening line of the novel. Sabatini used it as his epitaph.
Variante: He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. And that was all his patrimony.
Origine: Scaramouche (1921), Ch. I: "The Republican"

“When we know all of whatever it may be, we can never do anything but forgive, madame. That is the profoundest religious truth that was ever written. It contains, in fact, a whole religion—the noblest religion any man could have to guide him.”

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Rafael Sabatini libro Scaramouche

Origine: Scaramouche (1921), Ch. XIV: "The Barrier"

“But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours.”

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Rafael Sabatini libro Scaramouche

Book 1, Chapter 9
Origine: Scaramouche

“… it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.”

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Rafael Sabatini libro Scaramouche

Origine: Scaramouche

“A man must sometimes laugh at himself or go mad,’ said he. ‘Few realize it. That is why there are so many madmen in the world.”

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Rafael Sabatini libro Captain Blood

Origine: Captain Blood

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

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Rafael Sabatini libro Scaramouche

Origine: Scaramouche

“Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are schooled in it, we live by it; and we rarely realize it.”

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Rafael Sabatini libro Scaramouche

Book 3, Chapter 16
Origine: Scaramouche

“To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. You must change man, not systems.”

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Rafael Sabatini libro Scaramouche

Origine: Scaramouche

“Regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can
inhabit”

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Rafael Sabatini

“Thirstily he set it to his lips, and as its cool refreshment began to soothe his throat, he thanked Heaven that in a world of much evil there was still so good a thing as ale.”

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Rafael Sabatini

Origine: Fortune's Fool

“But they were fated to misunderstand each other.”

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Rafael Sabatini libro Captain Blood

Origine: Captain Blood

“Only he who is without anything is without enemies.”

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Rafael Sabatini

Origine: Captain Blood Returns

“Truth is so often disconcerting.”

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Rafael Sabatini libro Scaramouche

Origine: Scaramouche

“Bestir, ladies! To your chaise, and see that you contrive to look your best. Soon the eyes of Guichen will be upon you, and the condition of your interior to-morrow will depend upon the impression made by your exterior to-day.”

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Rafael Sabatini libro Scaramouche

Book II. Chapter 2. The Service of Thespis
Scaramouche (1921)

“It was heroic!"
"Heroic, is it? Bedad, it's epic! Ye begin to perceive the breadth and depth of my genius.”

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Rafael Sabatini libro Captain Blood

Origine: Captain Blood (1922), Ch. IX: "The Rebels-Convict"

“They opposed brute force to reason and philosophy, and battalions of foreign mercenaries to ideas. As if ideas were to be impaled on bayonets!”

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Rafael Sabatini libro Scaramouche

Book III : Chapter 2. Quos Deus Vult Perdere
Scaramouche (1921)

“You have changed a certainty into a possibility, and I hate possibilities — God of God! I have lived on possibilities, and infernally near starved on them.”

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Rafael Sabatini libro Scaramouche

Book II : Chapter 11. The Fracas at the Theatre Feydau
Scaramouche (1921)

“Mr Pollexfen was at one and the same time right and wrong—a condition much more common than is generally supposed.”

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Rafael Sabatini libro Captain Blood

Origine: Captain Blood (1922), Ch. IV: "Human Merchandise"

“"Sir!" she checked him. "I think you are talking treason."
"I hope I am not obscure," said he.”

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Rafael Sabatini libro Captain Blood

Origine: Captain Blood (1922), Ch. V: "Arabella Bishop"

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