Quotes about Iceberg
Now, that Lazarus should lie stranded there on the curbstone before the door of Dives, this is more wonderful than that an iceberg should be moored to one of the Moluccas. Yet Dives himself, he too lives like a Czar in an ice palace made of frozen sighs, and being a president of a temperance society, he only drinks the tepid tears of orphans.
— Herman Melville
A solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.
— Mark Twain
The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.
— Ernest Hemingway
The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water'.
— Ernest Hemingway
The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.
— Aldous Huxley
The optimum population,' said Mustapha Mond, 'is modelled on the iceberg-eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.
— Aldous Huxley