Quotes from Wilbur Smith

She is the epitome of injustice, is my mistress. I never sulk, I am no glutton, and at that time I was barely thirty years of age, although to a fourteen-year-old anyone above twenty is an ancient, and I admit that, when it comes to food, I do have the refined tastes of a connoisseur.

A man's passion is like a fire in tall, dry grass, hot and furious but soon spent. A woman is like a magician's cauldron that must simmer long upon the coals before it can bring forth its spell. Be swift in all things but love.

There is no natural order. Only rules that one race invents to make the other serve its uses.

geologist. 'Thank you, gentlemen. Now let us get out of this nasty wind. We will have time to become better acquainted later.' Her voice was soft, almost lilting, but the inflexion was sharp and clearly Southern African. Hector knew that she had been born in Cape Town and had only taken up US citizenship after she married Henry Bannock. Bert Simpson opened the passenger door of the Hummvee

All-In Fighting by W. E. Fairbairn and Shooting to Live, also by Fairbairn, but co-authored with a certain E. A. Sykes.

provided important additions to the palace larder.

isn't that great!' But the

He wondered at the way in which all man's petty striving seemed insignificant in this place, in this vast primeval world—and suddenly he thought that if all men, even those who had known nothing but the crowded ratlike scrambling of the cities, could be set down in this place, even for a brief space of time, then they might return to their lives cleansed and refreshed, their subsequent strivings might become less vicious, more attuned to the eternal groundswell of nature.

wisdom of the outdoors, until

but often it is best to plead ignorance. That way you are more likely to learn secrets that might otherwise have been denied you.

she shivered and flushed. When she was pregnant

One story deserves another

master switches and both magnetos

I need a road." Isazi shrugged. "The one to the north is no longer or harder than the road to the south.

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Samantha was just tired and angry enough not to take it. "And I'm a woman. You didn't expect that either," she agreed. "It's a crying bastard, isn't it? But then, I bet some of your best friends

The stone falcons will fly afar. There shall be no peace in the kingdoms of the Mambos or the Monomatapas until they return. For the white eagle will war with the black bull until the stone falcons return to roost.

arnica cream. His own bruises

When the midnight sky turns to noon, and the stars shine on the hills—then the fist will hold the blade to the throat of the black bull.

Ralph let out a whoop

Sting the mamba with his own venom, pull down the lion with his own claws, deceive the clever chacma baboon with his own trickery.

was thrilled by the manner in which the American worked his ship. With his

The falcons have flown afar. There will be no peace in the kingdoms of the Mambos or the Monomatopas until they return. He who brings the stone falcons back to roost shall rule the kingdoms.

Sometimes, the most effective form of interrogation is to say nothing.