Tigers Quotes

332 Tigers quotes by 262 unique authors

An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always… — Stendhal
Ying-ying, you have tiger eyes. They gather fire in the day. At night they shine golden. — Amy Tan
The wildest hath not such a heart as you. Run when you will, the story shall be changed: Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase;… — William Shakespeare
And I was yet aware that this was only a moment, that the world waited outside, as hungry as a tiger, and that trouble stretched… — James A. Baldwin
There is a tiger in my room,' said Frances. 'Did he bite you?' said Father. 'No,' said Frances. 'Did he scratch you?' said Mother. 'No,'… — Russell Hoban
It had not seemed to matter that Rose was only eight years old. "More than eight," said Rose. "Nearly nine." "Darling Rose, even almost nearly… — Hilary McKay
Upon my word," said Dantes, "you make me shudder. Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles?" "Yes; and remember that two legged tigers and… — Alexandre Dumas
The one certainty in tiger tracks is: follow them long enough and you will eventually arrive at a tiger, unless the tiger arrives at you… — John Vaillant
Everything necessary to understand my grandfather lies between two stories: the story of the tiger’s wife, and the story of the deathless man. These stories… — Tea Obreht
It's best to love your family as you would a Siberian tiger-from a distance, preferably separated by bars. — Stephan Pastis
In case you still haven't figured it out, he loves you. Your tiger will be back in the morning, and you can thank me anytime.… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
An idea fell like a seed and over the next weeks it went on growing like a fig vine lush and conquering twining round her… — Laini Taylor
He thought of the jungle, already regrowing around him to cover the scars they had created. He thought of the tiger, killing to eat. Was… — Karl Marlantes
People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
How much do you love me?' Midori asked. 'Enough to melt all the tigers in the world to butter,' I said. — Haruki Murakami
Australians are very unfair in this way. They spend half of any conversation insisting that the country's dangers are vastly overrated and that there's nothing… — Bill Bryson
For one quarter, Black Tiger lets me escape from my rotten existence for three glorious hours. Pretty good deal. — Ernest Cline
You walk for days among trees and among stones. Rarely does the eye light on a thing, and then only when it has recognized that… — Italo Calvino
Lions and tigers, and bears, oh my! - Dorothy in Wizard of Oz — L. Frank Baum
The impact of an attacking tiger can be compared to that of a piano falling on you from a second story window. But unlike the… — John Vaillant
He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself unbearably unpleasant. He… — Robert A. Heinlein
Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside — John F. Kennedy
I would rediscover the secret of great communications and great combustions. I would say storm. I would say river. I would say tornado. I would… — Aime Cesaire
Republicans are taking the defeat over Health Care as well as Tiger Woods took to marriage. — Bill Maher
Ah, come now. I look like an angel, but I'm not. The old rules of nature encompass many creatures like me. We're beautiful like the… — Anne Rice

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