Moby-Dick Quotes

“Ignorance is the parent of fear.”

“I try all things; I achieve what I can.”

“Let Ahab beware of Ahab.”

“All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.”

“Methinks my body is but the lees of my better being.”

“A purse is but a rag unless you have something in it.”

“Not by beef or by bread, are giants made or nourished.”

“Circumambulate the city of a dreamy Sabbath afternoon.”

“Ahab and anguish lay stretched together in one hammock.”

“Queequeg was George Washington cannibalistically developed.”

“"I am past scorching; not easily can'st thou scorch a scar."”

“Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.”

““Madman! look through my eyes if thou hast none of thine own.””

“Thought he, it’s a wicked world in all meridians; I’ll die a pagan.”

“See how elastic our stiff prejudices grow once love comes to bend them.”

“There is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid.”

“It’s better to sail with a moody good captain than a laughing bad one.”

“Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe.”

“Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?”

“What is best let alone, that accursed thing is not always what least allures.”