Camels Quotes · Page 3

But camels, though odious to view and endowed with the offensive spirit, did not enjoy the blessing of pachydermaty.

— F. E. Adcock

It is a mistake trying to cheer up camels. You may as well drop meringues into a black hole.

— Terry Pratchett

Passion in a dromedary doesn't go so deep; a camel when it's mating never sobs itself to sleep.

— Noel Coward

The America's Cup, yachting's great and garish grail, is a tumorous tureen no handsomer than a camel.

— Tom Callahan

Texas liberals are the camels of good news. We can cross entire deserts between oases.

— Molly Ivins

The camel has his virtues - so much at least must be admitted; but they do not lie upon the surface.

— Amelia B. Edwards

I was warned the camels can be nasty, especially the young ones. I was warned to give it a wide berth.

— Edward Herrmann

My lady had the body of a siren, the face of a goddess, and the mind of an Armenian camel dealer.

— Louis L'Amour

A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel.

— George Eliot

I thought you wanted to catch a camel," you tried again. "No." "I want to." "Well, you go then." You laughed. "I…

— Lucy Christopher

“ Once they rode camels in the desert; once they drove caravans across Europe. They eat screams and drink pain. You had…

— Stephen King

“sides yellowed by too many unfiltered Camels. The whole place had the feel of a neighborhood hangout for people too stupid to…

— Julia Kent

I've been on camels before, lumbering slowly through the desert - not hugely exciting, but I enjoyed the 'Lawrence of Arabia' vibe.

— Fiona Bruce

On horseback you feel as if you're moving in time to classical music; a camel seems to progress to the beat of…

— Walter Moers

Camel trips, as I suspected all along, and as I was about to have confirmed, do not being or end: they mere…

— Robyn Davidson

I have been agreeably disappointed in my idea of the camels. They are far from unpleasant to ride; in fact, it is…

— William John Wills

In an enclosed space, a camel's breath can change the atmosphere of the room. Not only just the smell, they literally seem…

— Steve Carell

The strongest animals on earth are plant eaters. Every creature we've enlisted to do the work we couldn't handle - the horse,…

— Victoria Moran

Sybil's female forebears had valiantly backed up their husbands as distant embassies were besieged, had given birth on a camel or in…

— Terry Pratchett

The soul should take care of the body, just as the pilgrim on his way to Makkah takes care of his camel;…

— Al-Ghazali

Watch it! It was robbed from other beings so it's HOT 'MERCHANDISE' and it's against the Law... the LAW OF DECENCY!!! Stay…

— Adela Popescu

In [India] and across the globe, hundreds and thousands of children, as young as three, as young as four, are sold into…

— Sunitha Krishnan

We are just coming out of a 100-year stupor from being lied to by the tobacco industry for a century about the…

— Kevin Sabet

Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance…

— Desiderius Erasmus

The camel has a single hump, The dromedary, two; Or else the other way around; I'm never sure. Are you?

— Ogden Nash

it is a curious fact that camels walk more quickly and straighter to the sound of singing.

— Rosita Forbes

Rich folks may ride on camels, but it ain't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye.

— Charles Dickens

“Let the two cross-tops and junk gin and four no-filter Camels make your heart pound.”

— Amanda Boyden

We don't like flowers that do not wilt; they must die, and nine she-camel hairs aid memory.

— Marianne Moore

Camels are still trained in Alice Springs for tourist jaunts and for occasional sale to Australia's zoos.

— Robyn Davidson

Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Camels are wonderful animals. Witty, intelligent and sensitive.

— Robyn Davidson

Then when Gladys Knight came in to do my songs that was the straw that broke the camel's back.

— Brenda Holloway

“They argued that women of the prophet’s era had ridden camels, the main mode of transportation of their day. The”

— Geraldine Brooks

[On the camel:] Its weak point is its morale, and it is here that so much depends on its human master. Discouragement…

— Mildred Cable

Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natural process at…

— Roger Ebert

The red Sahara in an angry glow, / With amber fogs, across its hollows trailed / Long strings of camels, gloomy-eyed and slow.

— Jean Ingelow

There are surprising turning points; there is the straw that breaks the camel's back, and you never know if your action could…

— Frances Moore Lappé

Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.

— Marianne Moore

But such is life, the silliest proverbs prove to be true, and when a man thinks, now it's all right, it's not…

— Alfred Doblin