Moby Dick Quotes

“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

topic:future fate adventure

“whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon...”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

topic:society morality

“To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

topic:writing books

“Book! you lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You'll do to give us the bare words and facts, but we come in to supply the thoughts.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

topic:books thinking

“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.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

topic:virtue money sin

“there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

topic:humanity madness

“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.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

topic:madness

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

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

topic:madness

“There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

topic:success

“small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever completing anything.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

topic:greatness

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