Quotes about Melville
And we Americans are the peculiar, chosen people—the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world.
- Herman Melville
For, when Stubb dressed, instead of first putting his legs into his trowsers, he put his pipe into his mouth.
- Herman Melville
Queequeg was George Washington cannibalistically developed. Whilst
- Herman Melville
For what are the comprehensible terrors of man compared with the interlinked terrors and wonders of God!
- Herman Melville
Top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle
- Herman Melville
Delight,--top-gallant delight is to him, who acknowledges no law or lord, but the Lord his God, and is only a patriot to heaven
- Herman Melville
Heaven have mercy on us all — Presbyterians and Pagans alike — for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
- Herman Melville
But in gazing at such scenes, it is all in all what mood you are in; if in the Dantean, the devils will occur to you; if in that of Isaiah, the archangels.
- Herman Melville
Let him be, I say: and Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
- Herman Melville
Oh, boys, don't be sentimental; it's bad for the digestion!
- Herman Melville
For a Khan of the plank, and a king of the sea and a great lord of Leviathans was Ahab.
- Herman Melville
hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling;
- Herman Melville