Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche Quotes

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

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

Speed will follow when the mechanism of the movements is more assured.

We are all, he says, the sport of destiny. Ah, but not quite. Destiny is an intelligent force, moving with purpose.

You behold him at the age of four-and-twenty stuffed with learning enough to produce an intellectual indigestion in an ordinary mind.

It is a futile and ridiculous struggle—but then... it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.

With you it is always the law, never equity.

What a man dares to do, he should dare to confess- unless he is a coward.

Oh, you are mad!" she exclaimed, quite out of patience."Possibly. But I like my madness.