Best Herman Melville Quotations
- It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure… Better
- Start her, now; give 'em the long and strong stroke, Tashtego. Start her, Tash, my boy-start her, all; but keep cool, keep cool-cucumbers is the… All
- No mercy, no power but its own controls it. Panting and snorting like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless ocean… Battle
- Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers. Covers
- Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English overswarm all India, and hang out their blazing banner from the… Add
- At last the anchor was up, the sails were set, and off we glided. It was a sharp, cold Christmas; and as the short northern… Anchor
- The late John Jacob Astor, a personage little given to poetic enthusiasm, had no hesitation in pronouncing my first grand point to be prudence; my… Add
- The fact is, that among his hunters at least, the whale would by all hands be considered a noble dish, were there not so much… All
- It is upon record, that three centuries ago the tongue of the Right Whale was esteemed a great delicacy in France, and commanded large prices… Ago
- The starred and stately nights seemed haughty dames in jewelled velvets, nursing at home in lonely pride, the memory of their absent conquering Earls, the… Absent
- Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish? Accomplish
- It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds… Bird
- And tell him to paint me a sign, with-no suicides permitted here, and no smloing in the parlor; might as well kill both birds at… Bird
- We are off! The courses and topsails are set: the coral-hung anchor swings from the bow: and together, the three royals are given to the… Anchor
- But I shall follow the endless, winding way, — the flowing river in the cave of man; careless whither I be led, reckless where I… Careless
- Immortality is but ubiquity in time. Immortality
- The easiest way of life is the best. Best
- In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery. Armies
- Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob. Among
- In time of peril, like the needle to the loadstone, obedience, irrespective of rank, generally flies to him who is best fitted to command. Best
- The drama's done. Why then here does any one step forth? — Because one did survive the wreck. Any
- Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang! Angel
- Thus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous. Best
- Thou wine art the friend of the friendless, though a foe to all. All
- Not one man in five cycles, who is wise, will expect appreciative recognition from his fellows, or any one of them. Any
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