"Woe to him who seeks to please rather…" — Herman Melville

"Woe to him who seeks to please rather than appall."

— Herman Melville

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285 Quotes by Herman Melville

Herman Melville has 285 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any…
To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my…
They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter…
No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys.
See with what entire freedom the whaleman takes his handful of lamps-often but old bottles and vials, though. ... He…
You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a…
He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.
Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies…
Prayer draws us near to our own souls.

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More Appall Quotes

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I could see the road ahead of me. I was poor and I was going to stay poor. But I… — Charles Bukowski
Some of the homes that have been built in the last 10 years just appall me. Why do humans need… — Elinor Ostrom
It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight. — Jacki Weaver
No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors. You accept things that would appall you at… — Patrick Ness
Mark Helprin and Lawrence Durrell, both of whom write fat and florid novels that appall me now but opened my… — Kevin Patterson
The people people have for friends You common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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