Pygmy Quotes

14 quotes by 13 authors

• Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom… — Charles Caleb Colton
• With disdain I will throw my gauntlet full in the fact of the world and see the collapse of this pygmy giant. Then will I… — Karl Marx
• A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pygmy-body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleas'd… — John Dryden
• I don't want to take a pill. Go to Africa, go follow some bushman around. He's being chased by a lion. That's stress. You're not… — Ellen DeGeneres
• For years, European leaders have pointed out that Europe is an economic giant, but a military pygmy. — George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen
• The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a… — Charles Caleb Colton
• I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in private, but when… — Mark Twain
• And I like pygmy goats, because they're just lovely, and ducks. — Richard Hammond
• Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings. — Oliver Herford
• One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn't merely that of a pygmy blocking… — Novalis
• Me, I was still in the pygmy hippo in a skirt, singing lusty songs about Solomon's private life and a giant stone back and forth… — Jonathan Stroud
• You'd think people had better things to gossip about, said Ginny as she sat on the common room floor, leaning against Harrys legs and reading… — JK Rowling
• Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can? — Henry David Thoreau
• The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pygmy in its proportions when it follows — Charles M De Talleyrand

Who Wrote These Pygmy Quotes

13 authors contributed a total of 14 Pygmy Quotes as follows:

• 2 Pygmy Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
• 1 Pygmy Quote by Oliver Herford
• 1 Pygmy Quote by Novalis
• 1 Pygmy Quote by Jonathan Stroud
• 1 Pygmy Quote by JK Rowling
• 1 Pygmy Quote by Henry David Thoreau
• 1 Pygmy Quote by Charles M De Talleyrand
• 1 Pygmy Quote by Karl Marx
• 1 Pygmy Quote by John Dryden
• 1 Pygmy Quote by Ellen DeGeneres
• 1 Pygmy Quote by George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen
• 1 Pygmy Quote by Mark Twain
• 1 Pygmy Quote by Richard Hammond