# Henry Rider Haggard - Quotes: 20 - Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-rider-haggard ## Books - [King Solomon's Mines](https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-rider-haggard/king-solomons-mines.md) — 10 quotes - [She](https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-rider-haggard/she.md) — 10 quotes ## Recently added quotes > And now let us love and take that which is given us, and be happy; for in the grave there is no love and no warmth, nor any touching of the lips. Nothing perchance, or perchance bitter memories of what might have been. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-rider-haggard/she/and-now-let.md) > Yea, all things live for ever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-rider-haggard/she/yea-all-things.md) > [T]hinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-rider-haggard/she/t-hinking-can-only.md) > Truly time should be measured by events, and not by the lapse of hours. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-rider-haggard/she/truly-time-should.md) > Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and this many-coloured pigment of imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them doth agree with another! [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-rider-haggard/she/strange-are-the.md) > [T]he food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of hope that we can bear to bite it. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-rider-haggard/she/t-he-food-that.md) > [M]emory haunts me from age to age, and passion leads me by the hand—evil have I done, and with sorrow have I made acquaintance from age to age, and from age to age evil I shall do, and sorrow shall I know till my redemption comes. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-rider-haggard/she/m-emory-haunts-me-from.md) > Time and time again have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been and passed away and been forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several; for Time eats up the works of man. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-rider-haggard/she/time-and-time.md) > There is no such thing as magic, though there is such a thing as a knowledge of the secrets of nature. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-rider-haggard/she/there-is-no-such.md) > Ah, how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathereth it like water, but like water it runneth through his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, "See, he is a wise man!" [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-rider-haggard/she/ah-how-little.md) > He is an extraordinary animal is the house fly. Go where you will you find him, and so it must have been always. I have seen him enclosed in amber, which is, I was told, quite half a million years old, looking exactly like his descendant of to-day, and I have little doubt but that when the last man lies dying on the earth he will be buzzing round – if this event should happen to occur in summer – watching for an opportunity to settle on his nose. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-rider-haggard/king-solomons-mines/he-is-an-extraordinary.md) > 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. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-rider-haggard/king-solomons-mines/i-looked-down.md)