Savage Quotes

368 Savage quotes by 284 unique authors

Get down, get naked, get savage. — Ron Carlson
If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special… — Adam McKay
Nothing walks the earth more savage than a mare enraged. — Janet Morris
The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood — George Bernard Shaw
The laws of Nature take precedence of all human laws. The purpose of all human laws is one - to defeat the laws of Nature.… — Mark Twain
My piano has not yet arrived. How did you send it? By Marseilles or by Perpignan? I dream music but I cannot make any because… — Frederic Chopin
Sometimes a savage beauty lured me into the sun and I would start to love the danger a little. On these occasions I felt the… — Anna Kavan
Love and hate are so confused in your savage minds and the vibrations of the one are so very like those of the other that… — Gore Vidal
A savage place! As holy and enchanted/As e'er beneath the waning moon was haunted/By woman wailing for her Demon Lover! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Music is the language of all. It tames the savage beast and allows us to get over heartbreak. It helps us express what we really… — James A. Murphy III
Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to… — Plato
Hungarian Language — savage it may be but of a beauty that has nothing human about it, with sonorities of another universe, powerful and corrosive,… — Emile M. Cioran
I do not doubt that if the Paradisal man could now appear among us, we should regard him as an utter savage, a creature to… — C.S. Lewis
If your little savage were left to himself and be allowed to retain all his ignorance, he would in time join the infant's reasoning to… — Denis Diderot
The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear. — Elbert Hubbard
As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught a glimpse of… — Henry David Thoreau
Science frees us in many ways...from the bodily terror which the savage feels. But she replaces that, in the minds of many, by a moral… — Charles Kingsley
The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things ... have their beginnings; but the… — Edith Hamilton
Don't be surprised if I behave like a savage. I am a savage — Mike Tyson
The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a tamed instinct. The… — Sigmund Freud
Man is still a savage to the extent that he has little respect for anything that cannot hurt him. — E. W. Howe
The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
To most people a savage nation is wan that doesn't wear oncomf'rtable clothes. — Finley Peter Dunne

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