Rafael Sabatini

Quotes

• “He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.”
• “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.”
• “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.”
• “They opposed brute force to reason and philosophy, and battalions of foreign mercenaries to ideas. As if ideas were to be impaled on bayonets!”
• “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.”
• “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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Key facts

Born

( 1875-04-29 ) 29 April 1875, Jesi , Kingdom of Italy

Died

13 February 1950 (1950-02-13) (aged 74), Adelboden , Switzerland

Occupation

Novelist

Nationality

Italian / British

Genre

romance , adventure

Literary movement

Neo-romanticism

Notable works

Scaramouche , Captain Blood

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Key dates

Born

29 April 1875

Died

13 February 1950

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Rafael

Gender

male

Citizenship

Kingdom of Italy

Place of birth

Jesi

Place of death

Wikon

Occupation

science fiction writer

Languages spoken

English language

Image

Good Housekeeping-Vol. 78-578.jpg

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