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Him Quotes by Herman Melville
- He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.
- 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…
- 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…
- Woe to him who seeks to please rather than 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- In time of peril, like the needle to the loadstone, obedience, irrespective of rank, generally flies to him who is best fitted to command.
- Man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his…
- There is the grand truth about Nathaniel Hawthorne. He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. For all men…
- There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities.
- Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any…
- In truth, a mature man who uses hair oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere.
- Woe to him whom this world charms from Gospel duty. Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has brewed…
- A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. So, if any one man, in…
- Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give…
- It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him.
- I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other…
- Will you, or will you not, quit me? I now demanded in a sudden passion, advancing close to him. "I would prefer not to quit…
- However baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may augment; yet for…
- The sun hides not the ocean, which is the dark side of this earth, and which is two thirds of this earth. So, therefore, that…
- The stillness of the calm is awful. His voice begins to grow strange and portentous. He feels it in him like something swallowed too big…
- They are friends; and friendly they guide him to prey Yet never partake of the treat Eyes and brains to the dotard lethargic and dull,…
More Him Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden