The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

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

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