Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman. — Euripides Copy Share Image
Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The savage prays to a stone that he calls a god, while the Christian prays to a god he calls a spirit,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free... Why am I so changed? I'm sure I should… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation. — Percival Lowell Copy Share Image
The primitive in each of us climbs closer to the surface during the night, for the moon sings to it, and the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
I love boxing and it did a lot for me. But sometimes it made me think how savage human beings could be… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
The savage nations of the globe are the common enemies of civilized society; and we may inquire, with anxious curiosity, whether Europe… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
A familiar name cannot make a man less strange to me. It may be given to a savage who retains in secret… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My favorite villain was maybe Batman. I think Vandal Savage is really cool 'cause he has the ability not to die and… — Casper Crump Copy Share Image
I was very familiar with both actors, as well as Christina Hendricks and Bill Sage, Jimmi Simpson, Polly McIntosh, but the other… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
No onslaught more fierce was ever seen in the savage world of beasts, where some desperate small creature armed with little teeth,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do you dance, Mr. Darcy?" Darcy: "Not if I can help it!" Sir William: "What a charming amusement for young people this… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and without the pressure of poverty: a new social organism… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
There are many reasons, of course, why someone might snap their fingers and grin. If you heard some pleasing music, for instance,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The enemy aggressor is always pursuing a course of larceny, murder, rapine, and barbarism. We are always moving forward with high mission,… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
“… about sixty thousand Indians and half-breeds… absolute savages… our inspectors occasionally visit… otherwise, no communication whatever with the civilized world… still… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles?… — Plato Copy Share Image
To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all. The infant breaks his toy, bites… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
An important job of the critic is to savage what is mediocre or meretricious. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
