Sax Rohmer > Quotes

“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.”
― Sax Rohmer, The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu

“There is no incidental music to the dramas of real life. As”
― Sax Rohmer, The Dr. Fu Manchu Collection: The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu, The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu, and The Hand of Dr. Fu Manchu

“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.”
― Sax Rohmer, The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu

“hag”
― Sax Rohmer, The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu

“The big swan—Apollo—was within ten feet of me; he swam in open water, clear of the others; no living thing touched him. Suddenly, uttering a cry that chilled my very blood, a cry that I never heard from a swan in my life, he rose in the air, his huge wings extended—like a tortured phantom, Sime; I can never forget it—six feet clear of the water. The uncanny wail became a stifled hiss, and sending up a perfect fountain of water—I was deluged—the poor old king-swan fell, beat the surface with his wings—and was still.”
― Sax Rohmer, Brood of the Witch-Queen

“The same as a cigarette?" asked Rita excitedly, as Mrs. Sin bent over her.

"The same, but very, very gentle.”
― Sax Rohmer, Dope

“Had I known what was to follow I should have cursed the lucidity of mind which now came to me; I should have prayed for oblivion—to be spared the sight of that which ensued.”
― Sax Rohmer, The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu

“self-possession”
― Sax Rohmer, The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu

“The millions might sleep in peace—the millions in whose cause we labored!—but we who knew the reality of the danger knew that a veritable octopus had fastened upon England—a yellow octopus whose head was that of Dr. Fu-Manchu, whose tentacles were dacoity, thuggee, modes of death, secret and swift, which in the darkness plucked men from life and left no clew behind.”
― Sax Rohmer, The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu

“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.”
― Sax Rohmer, The Green Eyes of Bast

“Wonderous is our faith in the virtue of today.”
― Sax Rohmer

“I gain nothing by having a rock in my boxing glove if the other fellow has one too." - Sir Denis Nayland Smith”
― Sax Rohmer, The Shadow of Fu-Manchu

“Cathay.”
― Sax Rohmer, The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu

“Yet, if Smith were right (and I did not doubt him), the green eyes of Dr. Fu-Manchu had looked upon the scene; and I found myself marveling that its beauty had not wilted up. Even now the dread Chinaman must be near to us.”
― Sax Rohmer, The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu