Leilane Sabatini Quotes

Before World War II, I was living a very cloistered existence, as most cartoonists do. The work I was pouring out did not come from any real, personal life experience; this was all the residue of the accumulation of Rafael Sabatini, O. Henry, all the short-story writers that I'd been reading. ~ Will Eisner

In life we pay for the evil that in life we do. ~ Rafael Sabatini

He still had, you see, illusions about Christians. ~ Rafael Sabatini

There was a great historian lost in Wolverstone. He had the right imagination that knows just how far it is safe to stray from the truth and just how far to colour it so as to change its shape for his own purposes. ~ Rafael Sabatini

And yet she was content to pair off with this dull young adventurer in the tarnished lace! It was, he supposed, the sort of thing to be expected of a sex that all philosophy had taught him to regard as the maddest part of a mad species. ~ Rafael Sabatini

There remained the sea, which is free to all, and particularly alluring to those who feel themselves at war with humanity. ~ Rafael Sabatini

From somewhere in the blue vault of heaven overhead came the joyous trilling of a lark, from below the silken rustling of the tideless sea. ~ Rafael Sabatini

I am very poor - for a know nothing, understand nothing. It is not a calamitous condition until it is realized. ~ Rafael Sabatini

Evidently not. They are just governing ~ Rafael Sabatini

I work out in a studio. Every day, regardless where I am, at least two hours. I need it. I can't cease it. ~ Gabriela Sabatini

Gold has at all times been considered the best of testimonies of good faith ... ~ Rafael Sabatini

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

I am afraid, monsieur, you will have to kill me first, and I have a prejudice against being killed before nine o'clock. ~ Rafael Sabatini

Regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can
inhabit ~ Rafael Sabatini

He was born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad." (the novel Scaramouche) ~ Rafael Sabatini

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

I desire a society which selects its rulers from the best elements of every class and denies the right of any class or corporation to usurp the government itself
whether it be the nobles, the clergy, the bourgeoisie, or the proletariat. For government by any class is fatal to the welfare of the whole, ~ Rafael Sabatini

What I'm doing, with my image, I have my perfumes. I've had that for almost 20 years, and I have like 14, 15 different perfumes now. ~ Gabriela Sabatini

I promise to be there for you. I'll catch you if you fall. ~ Kimberly Sabatini

A deadly sin that brings no evil material sequel to the satisfaction afforded by committing it is one thing. A deadly sin that gives you the stomach-ache is quite another. ~ Rafael Sabatini

If Mr. Blood had condescended to debate the matter with these ladies, he might have urged that having had his fill of wandering and adventuring, he was now embarked upon the career for which he had been originally intended and for which his studies had equipped him; that he was a man of medicine and not of war; a healer, not a slayer. ~ Rafael Sabatini

It is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous. ~ Rafael Sabatini

Perfect harmony of body and mind are my key to personal balance and happiness. ~ Gabriela Sabatini

Most of this world's misery is the fruit not as priests tell us of wickedness, but of stupidity ...
And we know that of all stupidities he considered anger the most deplorable. ~ Rafael Sabatini

Do you wonder that they will ~ Rafael Sabatini

That's when I saw you, really saw you for the first time. I didn't intend to look at you, it just happened. It was like those pictures, you know, those optical illusions. You can gaze at them forever and see only one thing. Then when you relax your eyes for just a moment, another picture magically appears. The funny thing with that kind of visual trick it that it's really hard to go back to seeing the original picture once you've seen the new one. ~ Kimberly Sabatini

I served, she came to the net, it was a passing shot. ~ Gabriela Sabatini

When I finally held the trophy, it was just how I imagined it would be. ~ Gabriela Sabatini

It does not make me ridiculous simply to be less foul than those about me. ~ Rafael Sabatini

What these guys are doing is great for Argentinean tennis. This is motivating other people. ~ Gabriela Sabatini

It's amazing, it doesn't feel like it has been 10 years since retirement. ~ Gabriela Sabatini

I hate possibilities - God of God! I have lived on possibilities, and infernally near starved on them. ~ Rafael Sabatini