Scaramouche
Rafael Sabatini
Top 10 Best Quotes
“He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.”
“...it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.”
“But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours. ~ Book 1, Chapter 9,”
“Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.' 'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence.”
“He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. And that was all his patrimony.”
“To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. You must change man, not systems.”
“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.’ – Book 3, Chapter 16”
“He was suffering from the loss of an illusion.”
“Truth is so often disconcerting.”
“The idea of equality is a by-product of the sentiment of envy. Since it must always prove beyond human ower to raise the inferior mass to a superior stratum, apostles of equality must ever be inferiors seeking to reduce their betters to their level. It follows that a nation that once admits this doctrine of equality will be dragged by it to the level, moral, intelletual and political, of its most worthless class.”
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