Sax Rohmer

Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward (15 February 1883 – 1 June 1959), better known as Sax Rohmer, was a prolific English novelist, most remembered for his series of novels featuring the master criminal Dr. Fu Manchu. Quotes There are few states, I suppose, which exact so severe a toll from one's nervous system as the anticipation of calamity. The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu (1920), ch. ix There is no incidental music to the dramas of real life. The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu (1920), ch. ix The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu (1913) thumb Imagine a person, tall, lean and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan, ... one giant intellect, with all the resources of science past and present ... Imagine that awful being, and you have a mental picture of Dr. Fu-Manchu, the yellow peril incarnate in one man. Many there are, I doubt not, who will regard the Eastern girl with horror. I ask their forgiveness in that I regarded her quite differently. No man having seen her could have condemned her unheard. Many, having looked into her lovely eyes, had they found there what I found, must have forgiven her almost any crime. External links Category:Novelists from England Category:1883 births Category:1959 deaths Category:People from Birmingham