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Sax Rohmer Quotes

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

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

Sax Rohmer
Real, Drama, Real Life
Sax Rohmer (2013). “The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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. Invest him with all the cruel cunning of an entire Eastern race, accumulated in one giant intellect, with all the resources of science past and present, with all the resources, if you will, of a wealthy government--which, however, already has denied all knowledge of his existence. Imagine that awful being, and you have a mental picture of Dr. Fu-Manchu, the yellow peril incarnate in one man.

Sax Rohmer
Cat, Eye, Men
Phillip J. Morledge, Sax Rohmer (2008). “Fu Manchu”, p.13, Lulu.com

There is no merit in a special talent unless its exercise is of use to others.

Sax Rohmer
Exercise, Special, Use
Sax Rohmer (2015). “Fu-Manchu - Emperor Fu-Manchu”, p.176, Titan Books

Quality rather than quantity distinguishes the master.

Sax Rohmer
Quality, Masters, Quantity
Sax Rohmer (2001). “The Fu Manchu Omnibus”

There are few states, I suppose, which exact so severe a toll from one's nervous system as the anticipation of calamity.

Sax Rohmer
Tolls, Anticipation, Nervous
Sax Rohmer (2013). “The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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