Author of quotes: Henry Rider Haggard

- There is a woman involved in every case.

Sleep - the end or the beginning of all things? Before we were born, we must have been asleep, because we remember nothing about this time, and after we die, we are likely to sleep, as anyone who has ever seen mummies knows.

All we see is a shadow; and we ourselves are only shadows, and the realities that cast them live in some other country, illuminated by a spiritual sun that never sets.

- I think for the same reason that a dog's back breeds fleas. Fleas must live, and here is just a dog.

If he were alive, he would now be pharaoh instead of my father. But he died too soon. All this makes me think that there is something not quite right in the stories about his wisdom. After all, a truly wise person would never wish to become the pharaoh of Egypt.

Happiness is a bird that no man can snare, although sometimes it flies in through his window of its own accord.

I think great things are coming for you and for me. Remember, in my veins there is half Eastern blood, and we, the children of the East, feel the shadow of the future before it imposes its hand on us and becomes real.

The man loves the naked sword most of all.

Often the victim seems light when you look at it from a distance.

- And he hated it even more!

Always in such moments, the devil is a zealous henchman to everyone who is plotting evil against his neighbor.

If God is merciful, why does he tolerate evil, which breaks even the heart of sinful man?

We all are slaves of their imagination.

The power of jealousy is a little bitch, which can dry out the whole tree of the Empire, secret of the sword, with the power to arrange the fate of kings!