Famous quotes containing the word melville:
“Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“This mortal air is one wide pestilence, that kills us all at last.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Oh! mock not the poniarded heart. The stabbed man knows the steel; prate not to him that it is only a ticking feather.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)