Best Herman Melville Sayings
- There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear - the city of London and the South Seas. Cities
- For, as when the red-cheeked, dancing girls, April and May, trip home to the wintry, misanthropic woods; even the barest, ruggedest, most thunder-cloven old oak… April
- A book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf - at any rate it is safer from criticism. Any
- None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest… All
- I never fancied broiling fowls; - though once broiled, judiciously buttered, and judgmatically salted and peppered, there is no one who will speak more respectfully,… Broiled
- If not against us, nature is not for us. Funny
- The most mighty of nature's laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life. Brings
- Though amid all the smoking horror and diabolism of a sea-fight, sharks will be seen longingly gazing up to the ship's decks, like hungry dogs… All
- Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any… Any
- God's one and only voice is silence. Change
- ...The silent reminiscence of hardships departed, is sweeter than the presence of delight. Delight
- Failure is the true test of greatness Failure
- What man who carries a heavenly soul in him, has not groaned to perceive, that unless he committed a sort of suicide as to the… Carries
- Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale... from hell's heart I stab at thee. All
- God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee; and he whose intense thinking thus makes him a Prometheus; a vulture… Created
- The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's… Act
- Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the… Basket
- An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward. Comrade
- For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy,… All
- War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim. Aim
- There is a woe that is wisdom, a woe that is madness. Inspirational
- My means are sane, my motives and my object mad. Insanity
- Woe to him who seeks to please rather than appall. Appall
- Of all insults, the temporary condescension of a master to a slave is the most outrageous and galling. That potentate who most condescends, mark him… All
- There's something ever egotistical in mountain tops and towers, and all things grand and lofty. All
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