Quotes from Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche

He saw light, dazzling, blinding, and it scared him.

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

It is a futile and ridiculous struggle—but then... it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.' 'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence.

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