Savages Quotes

Get down, get naked, get savage.

— Ron Carlson

Every savage can dance.

— Jane Austen

“Savages go hard on the paint.”

— Young Savage

We're not savages. We're English.

— William Golding

Savage is he who saves himself.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Savage bears agree with one another.

— Juvenal

The savages don't have atom bombs.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

Are we savages or what?

— William Golding

Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.

— Mark Twain

I like to think I'm some savage realist.

— Nick Frost

An important job of the critic is to savage what is mediocre or meretricious.

— Susan Sontag

I live in a zoo I run scandals with savages

— Cam'ron

Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.

— Publilius Syrus

Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage.

— George Saintsbury

I am only a little lion, child, and I vow, I shall not savage you.

— Anonymous

Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages.

— E. M. Forster

If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage…

— Anonymous

Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry.

— H. G. Wells

“You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we…

— Oscar Wilde

Everywhere, giant finned cars nose forward like fish; a savage servility slides by on grease.

— Robert Lowell

Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England.

— Samuel Johnson

Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and…

— Benjamin Rush

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

— Plutarch

Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm.

— Cormac McCarthy

After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was…

— Anonymous

We were a savage little lot, Liverpool kids, not pacifist or vegetarian or anything. But I feel I've gone beyond that, and…

— Paul McCartney

I think that show will go down in history... people will scratch their heads and say 'How did this ever get on…

— Denise Crosby

My piano has not yet arrived. How did you send it? By Marseilles or by Perpignan? I dream music but I cannot…

— Frederic Chopin

I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them,…

— Michel de Montaigne

If she know how strongly he felt, she'd have run out the door. He wasn't used to the possessive, or the savage…

— Patricia Briggs

She looked into the staring glass eyes and complacent face, and suddenly a sort of heartbroken rage seized her. She lifted her…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

Are you?” “What?” “Venomous?” Another savage smile. He touched the tip of one fang with his tongue and when he drew it…

— Nalini Singh

The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and…

— David Hume

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law…

— Aristotle

During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most…

— Anonymous

The phenomenon of dreaming ... helped to build up the notion of an unreal or spiritual world; and in general, all the…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Life is a hurricane, and we board up to save what we can and bow low to the earth to crouch in…

— Jesmyn Ward

For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order…

— Charles Darwin

Her cheeks were flushed. She caught hold of the Savage's arm and pressed it, limp, against her side. He looked down at…

— Aldous Huxley

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction…

— George Santayana