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| 20 Moby-Dick Quotes By Herman Melville |
Information About Moby-Dick
Name of Book : Moby-Dick
Author : Herman Melville
Genre : Adventure novel
Pages : 427 pages
Language : English
Country : United States
Publication date : October 18, 1851 (England) ; November 14, 1851 (US)
Publisher : Richard Bentley (England) ; Harper & Brothers (US)
Quotes From Moby-Dick
1. “ For to go as a passenger you must needs have a purse, and a purse is but a rag unless you have something in it. ”
— Moby-Dick
2. “ There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. ”
— Moby-Dick
3. “ Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease. ”
— Moby-Dick
4. “ Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. ”
— Moby-Dick
5. “ In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers. ”
— Moby-Dick
6. “ Immortality is but ubiquity in time. ”
— Moby-Dick
7. “ Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form. ”
— Moby-Dick
8. “ Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian. ”
— Moby-Dick
9. “ Consider all this; and then turn to this green, gentle, and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself? ”
— Moby-Dick
10. “ For all have doubts; many deny; but doubts or denials, few along with them, have intuitions. Doubts of all things earthly, and intuitions of some things heavenly; this combination makes neither believer nor infidel, but makes a man who regards them both with equal eye. ”
— Moby-Dick
11. “ To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be who have tried it. ”
— Moby-Dick
12. “ Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored. ”
— Moby-Dick
13. “ In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers. ”
— Moby-Dick
14. “ A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. ”
— Moby-Dick
15. “ It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him. ”
— Moby-Dick
16. “ It is not down in any map; true places never are. ”
— Moby-Dick
17. “ A laugh’s the wisest, easiest answer to all that’s queer. ”
— Moby-Dick
18. “ To think’s audacity. God only has that right and privilege. Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that. ”
— Moby-Dick
19. “ Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I’d strike the sun if it insulted me. ”
— Moby-Dick
20. “ Long exile from Christendom and civilization inevitably restores a man to that condition in which God placed him, i.e. what is called savagery. ”
— Moby-Dick