Better to sleep with a sober cannibal th... by Herman Melville | We Heart Quotes

Author Literature American novel Moby Dick

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.

- Herman Melville

Other quotes by Herman Melville

Smile

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

- Herman Melville

Being World

There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.

- Herman Melville

Deep Wrong Want Man

There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.

- Herman Melville

I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.

- Herman Melville

Truth Words

Truth is in things, and not in words.

- Herman Melville

Men Will

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

- Herman Melville

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