Sax Rohmer Quotes

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.

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

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

Quality rather than quantity distinguishes the master.