Rafael Sabatini said this quote

But he looks no more than thirty. He's very handsome-- so much you will admit; nor will you deny that he is very wealthy and very powerful; the greatest nobleman in Brittany. He will make me a great lady.''God made you that, Aline.

~ Rafael Sabatini

And yet she was content to pair off with this dull young adventurer in the tarnished lace! It was, he supposed, the sort of thing to be expected of a sex that all philosophy had taught him to regard as the maddest part of a mad species.

~ Rafael Sabatini

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

~ Rafael Sabatini

Mind being the seat of the soul, and literature being the expression of the mind, literature, it follows, is the soul of an age, the surviving and immortal part of it.

~ Rafael Sabatini