--- title: "6 Head Thou Quotes by 3 authors" description: "Browse 6 Head Thou quotes by 3 authors. Discover the best Head Thou sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa5/herman-melville-162_abraham_it-was-a-black-and-hooded-head-and-hangi_100161.jpg" --- > [“It was a black and hooded head; and hanging there in the midst of so intense a calm, it seemed the Sphynx’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/it-was-a-black-and-hooded-head-and-hanging-there-in-the-midst-of-so/) [Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa5/herman-melville-162_abraham_it-was-a-black-and-hooded-head-and-hangi_100161.jpg) > [Teeth hadst thou in thy head when thou wast born, To signify thou camest to bite the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/teeth-hadst-thou-in-thy-head-when-thou-wast-born-to-signify-thou/) [William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-shakespeare/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e17/william-shakespeare-4_bites_teeth-hadst-thou-in-thy-head-when-thou-w_1165324.jpg) > [“That head upon which the upper sun now gleams, has moved amid this world's foundations. Where unrecorded names and navies rust, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/that-head-upon-which-the-upper-sun-now-gleams-has-moved-amid-this/) [Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ddc/herman-melville-162_heart-to-heart_that-head-upon-which-the-upper-sun-now-g_2131901.jpg) > [“Speak, thou vast and venerable head,” muttered Ahab, “which, though ungarnished with a beard, yet here and there lookest hoary with mosses;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/speak-thou-vast-and-venerable-head-muttered-ahab-which-though/) [Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/010/herman-melville-162_ahab_speak-thou-vast-and-venerable-head-mutte_2385775.jpg) > [“I cannot count the pebbles in the brook. Well hath He spoken: "Swear not by thy head. Thou knowest not the hairs,"…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-k-chesterton/i-cannot-count-the-pebbles-in-the-brook-well-hath-he-spoken-swear-not/) [G.K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-k-chesterton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/efa/g-k-chesterton-224_thou_i-cannot-count-the-pebbles-in-the-brook_2722909.jpg) > [“What say you? Hence, Horrible villain! or I'll spurn thine eyes Like balls before me; I'll unhair thy head: Thou shalt be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/what-say-you-hence-horrible-villain-or-i-ll-spurn-thine-eyes-like/) [William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-shakespeare/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd3/william-shakespeare-4_villain_what-say-you-hence-horrible-villain-or-i_2972418.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/head-thou/#itemlist", "name": "Head Thou Quotes", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“It was a black and hooded head; and hanging there in the midst of so intense a calm, it seemed the Sphynx’s in the desert. “Speak, thou vast and venerable head,” muttered Ahab, “which, though ungarnished with a beard, yet here and there lookest hoary with mosses; speak, mighty head, and tell us the secret thing that is in thee. Of all divers, thou hast dived the deepest. That head upon which the upper sun now gleams, has moved amid this world’s foundations. Where unrecorded names and navies rust, and untold hopes and anchors rot; where in her murderous hold this frigate earth is ballasted with bones of millions of the drowned; there, in that awful water-land, there was thy most familiar home. Thou hast been where bell or diver never went; hast slept by many a sailor’s side, where sleepless mothers would give their lives to lay them down. Thou saw’st the locked lovers when leaping from their flaming ship; heart to heart they sank beneath the exulting wave; true to each other, when heaven seemed false to them. 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