"Moby Dick" Quotes

If sailors, seamen, and sea creatures are your thing, read Moby Dick, one of the finest novels by Herman Melville. This "unputdownable" book drags you thousand of leagues under the sea in search of a whale known for its ferocity. I am sure that you will enjoy these famous Moby Dick quotes.

• Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
  
  
• We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
  
  
• It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
  
  
• Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.
  
  
• Ignorance is the parent of fear…
  
  
• Hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated through the hereditary dyspepsias nurtured by Ramadans.
  
  
• I rejoice in my spine, as in the firm audacious staff of that flag which I fling half out to the world.
  
  
• The drama's done. Why then here does any one step forth? --Because one did survive the wreck.
  
  
• Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee. Sink all coffins and all hearses to one common pool! And since neither can be mine, let me then tow to pieces, while still chasing thee, though tied to thee, thou damned whale! Thus, I give up the spear!