Quotes of: Savages Keyword

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

Robert E. Howard

A savage review is much more entertaining for the reader than an admiring one; the little misanthrope in each of us relishes the rubbishing of someone else.

Arthur Smith

When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show.

Angus Young

But you want a placid pond, a glassy surface to reflect your own casual desires and nothing more. You will never fathom the depths of my savage ocean.

Love

No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders.

Ida B. Wells

If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.

Belva Lockwood

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.' 'In fact,' said Mustapha Mond, 'you're claiming the right to be unhappy.' 'All right then,' said the Savage defiantly, 'I'm claimin...

Brave New World

An ironic religion -- one that never claims to be absolutely true but only professes to be relatively beautiful, and never promises salvation but only proposes it as a salubrious idea. A century ago there were people who thought art was the thing tha...

The Savage Girl

The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.

The Curse of Chalion

Captive Greece took captive her savage conquerer and brought the arts to rustic Latium

Epistles Book II and Epistle to the Pisones

In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.

Thomas Gold

Guns are like thermometers, only instead of measuring body temperatures they measure our fear.

Savage Girl

It was great to see the owls," I said. She smiled. "Yes. They're wild things, of course. Killers, savages. They're wonderful.

Skellig

There is nothing more savage than modern civilization.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

A Natural History of the Senses

We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.

Lord of the Flies

In America, Walt Disney opened an amusement park. And in Florence, someone was savaging the remnants of a Tuscan nobleman’s family.

The Light in the Ruins

With a savage grin, he let out an inhuman roar of bloodlust and threw himself into an unholy orgy of blood, fangs, claws, and death.

Longinus the Vampire

There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.

A Storm of Swords

The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them.

The Writings of a Savage