Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Sax Rohmer

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English novelist Sax Rohmer.
Last updated on November 25, 2024.
Sax Rohmer

Arthur Henry "Sarsfield" Ward, better known as Sax Rohmer, was an English novelist. He is best remembered for his series of novels featuring the master criminal Dr. Fu Manchu.

There are few states, I suppose, which exact so severe a toll from one's nervous system as the anticipation of calamity.
There is no incidental music to the dramas of real life.
Quality rather than quantity distinguishes the master. — © Sax Rohmer
Quality rather than quantity distinguishes the master.
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.
There is no merit in a special talent unless its exercise is of use to others.
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