Best Herman Melville Lines
- The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head Demanding
- Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Begins
- Top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle in his head. All
- In one word, Queequeg, said I, rather digressively; hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated through the hereditary… Apple
- O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter,… All
- I rejoice in my spine, as in the firm audacious staff of that flag which I fling half out to the world. Audacious
- What like a bullet can undeceive! Bullet
- People seem to have a great love for names. For to know a great many names seems to look like knowing a good many things. Good
- What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion. Application
- It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. Better
- Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth. First Sight
- We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men. Cannot Live
- I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge. Beauty
- Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need… Alike
- He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and… Adam
- To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. Age
- Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian. Better
- There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast… Affair
- A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. Communication
- Art is the objectification of feeling. Art
- There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath. Awful
- Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it,… All
- There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals. All
- A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard. College
- A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities. All
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