(46 quotes found)
“We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.”
Mark Twain
“Nobody was really surprised when it happened, not really, not on the subconscious level where savage things grow.”
Stephen King
“Breed not a savage dog, nor permit a loose stairway”
The Talmud
“The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage”
Plato
“It is only the savage, whether of the African bush or of the American gospel tent, who pretends to know the will and intent of God exactly and completely.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns”
Jonathan Swift
“Who killed Johnny Keats? "I," said the Quarterly, "So savage and tartarly, 'Twas one of my feats”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Standing among savage scenery, the hotel offers stupendous revelations. There is a French widow in every bedroom, affording delightful prospects.”
Gerard Hoffnung
“Imagine this fairy like Temple blazing like sunlight among those savage black rocks.”
Frederic Edwin Church
“Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.”
Michel de Montaigne
