# Quote — Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

> The Koran! well, come put me to the test—
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> Lovely old book in hideous error drest—
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> Believe me, I can quote the Koran too,
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> The unbeliever knows his Koran best. And do you think that unto such as you,
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> A maggot-minded, starved, fanatic crew,
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> God gave the secret, and denied it me?—
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> Well, well, what matters it! believe that too.

- Author: [Omar Khayyám](https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam.md)
- Book: [Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam](https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam.md)
- Page: 47
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Omar_Khayy%C3%A1m#Le_Gallienne,_Rub%C3%A1iy%C3%A1t_of_Omar_Khayy%C3%A1m_(1897,_1902)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam/the-koran-well

## More from this book

> Ah Love! could you and I with Him conspire.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam/ah-love-could-you.md)

> A book, a woman, and a flask of wine:
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> The three make heaven for me; it may be thine
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> Is some sour place of singing cold and bare —
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> But then, I never said thy heaven was mine.

p. 32 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam/a-book-a-woman.md)

> Would but some wing'ed Angel ere too late
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> Arrest the yet unfolded Roll of Fate,
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> And make the stern Recorder otherwise
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> Enregister, or quite obliterate!

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam/would-but-some.md)