"Who has but once dined his friends, has tasted what it is to be Caesar. It is a witchery of social czarship which there is no withstanding."
--Herman Melville, Moby Dick, pg 151
These are quotes that I have come across in books that I really love. I dedicate this place to all the wonderful words I have read. If trinkets from every day can be collected, then, why not words?
Showing posts with label Herman Melville. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Herman Melville. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Moby Dick, pg 56
"It is not down in any map; true places never are."
Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 12, pg 56
Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 12, pg 56
Moby Dick, p44
"But perhaps, to be true philosophers, we mortals should not be conscious of so living or so striving. So soon as I hear that such or such a man gives himself out for a philosopher, I conclude that, like the dyspeptic old woman, he must have 'broken his digester.'"
Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 10, pg 44.
Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 10, pg 44.
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Moby Dick, pg 30
"And the man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for."
Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 5, pg 30.
Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 5, pg 30.
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