Old man Quote by Herman Melville

“To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous.”

— Herman Melville

“Ahab is for ever Ahab, man. This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled.…

— Herman Melville

“thou great star! what would be thy happiness if thou hadst not those for whom thou shinest!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Oh, Ahab! what shall be grand in thee, it must needs be plucked at from the skies, and dived for in the deep, and…

— Herman Melville

Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," said I, "still thou art a bitter draught.

— Laurence Sterne

“And his Soul mocked him and said, "Surely thou hast but little joy out of thy love. Thou art as one who in time…

— Oscar Wilde

“Thou at the sight Pleased, out of Heaven shalt look down and smile, While by thee raised I ruin all my foes, Death last,…

— John Milton

“There he is then, the unfortunate brute, quite miserable because of me, for whom there is nothing to be done, and he so anxious…

— Samuel Beckett

“HOWEVER skilled and strong art thou, my foe, However fierce is thy relentless hate Though firm thy hand, and strong thy aim and straight…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Calm, gentle, passionless as he appeared, there was yet, we fear, a quiet depth of malice, hitherto latent, but active now, in this unfortunate…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward! Thou little valiant, great in villainy! Thou ever strong upon the stronger side! Thou Fortune's champion, that dost…

— William Shakespeare

“[The Utopians] marvel that any mortal can take pleasure in the weak sparkle of a little gem or bright pebble, when he has a…

— Sir Thomas More