Quotes from Sax Rohmer

There is no incidental music to the dramas of real life.

How strangely does the adventurous intrude upon the humdrum; for, when it intrudes at all, more often than not its intrusion is sudden and unlooked for. To-day, we may seek for romance and fail to find it: unsought, it lies in wait for us at most prosaic corners of life's highway.

Imagine a person, tall, lean and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan, a close-shaven skull, and long, magnetic eyes of the true cat-green.

There is no incidental music to the dramas of real life. As

Good evening, sir. A bit gusty?" "Very much so, sergeant," I replied. "I think I will step into your hut for a moment and light my pipe if I may." "Certainly, sir. Matches are too scarce nowadays to take risks with 'em. But it looks as if the storm had blown over.

I gain nothing by having a rock in my boxing glove if the other fellow has one too. - Sir Denis Nayland Smith

The same as a cigarette? asked Rita excitedly, as Mrs. Sin bent over her. The same, but very, very gentle.