Frases de H. Rider Haggard

Henry Rider Haggard [2]​ fue un escritor inglés victoriano de novelas de aventuras, iniciador del subgénero «mundo perdido». Wikipedia  

✵ 22. junio 1856 – 14. mayo 1925
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H. Rider Haggard: Frases en inglés

“It is easier to destroy knowledge, Ignosi, than to gather it.”

H. Rider Haggard libro King Solomon's Mines

Fuente: King Solomon's Mines (1885), Chapter 15, "Good Falls Sick"

“I looked down the long lines of waving black plumes and stern faces beneath them, and sighed to think that within one short hour most, if not all, of those magnificent veteran warriors, not a man of whom was under forty years of age, would be laid dead or dying in the dust. It could not be otherwise; they were being condemned, with that wise recklessness of human life which marks the great general, and often saves his forces and attains his ends, to certain slaughter, in order to give their cause and the remainder of the army a chance of success. They were foredoomed to die, and they knew the truth. It was to be their task to engage regiment after regiment of Twala’s army on the narrow strip of green beneath us, till they were exterminated or till the wings found a favourable opportunity for their onslaught. And yet they never hesitated, nor could I detect a sign of fear upon the face of a single warrior. There they were—going to certain death, about to quit the blessed light of day for ever, and yet able to contemplate their doom without a tremor. Even at that moment I could not help contrasting their state of mind with my own, which was far from comfortable, and breathing a sigh of envy and admiration. Never before had I seen such an absolute devotion to the idea of duty, and such a complete indifference to its bitter fruits.”

H. Rider Haggard libro King Solomon's Mines

Fuente: King Solomon's Mines (1885), Chapter 14, "The Last Stand of the Greys"

“Everything has an end, if only you live long enough to see it.”

H. Rider Haggard libro King Solomon's Mines

Fuente: King Solomon's Mines (1885), Chapter 5, "Our March into the Desert"

“It is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man.”

H. Rider Haggard libro Allan and the Holy Flower

Allan and the Holy Flower (1915), CHAPTER I, BROTHER JOHN

“We white people think that we know everything.”

H. Rider Haggard libro Child of Storm

Child of Storm (1913), CHAPTER I, ALLAN QUATERMAIN HEARS OF MAMEENA

“There is no loneliness like the loneliness of crowds, especially to those who are unaccustomed to them.”

A Tale of Three Lions (1887), CHAPTER I, THE INTEREST ON TEN SHILLINGS

“I am not a nervous man in a general way, and very little troubled with superstitions, of which I have lived to see the folly.”

H. Rider Haggard libro King Solomon's Mines

Fuente: King Solomon's Mines (1885), Chapter 16, "The Place of Death"

“I have never observed that the religious are more eager to die than the rest of us poor mortals.”

H. Rider Haggard libro The Ancient Allan

The Ancient Allan (1920), CHAPTER I, OLD FRIEND