Herman Melville Quotes About Dogs

Quotes about: Dogs

• No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.

  Herman Melville

  Dog, Horse, Philosopher

  Herman Melville (2016). “Redburn.His First Voyage”, p.222, Herman Melville

• When my eye rested on an arid height, spirit partook of the barrenness. - Heartily wish Niebuhr & Strauss to the dogs. The deuce take their penetration & acumen. They have robbed us of the bloom.

  Herman Melville

  Dog, Eye, Wish

• Though amid all the smoking horror and diabolism of a sea-fight, sharks will be seen longingly gazing up to the ship's decks, like hungry dogs round a table where red meat is being carved, ready to bolt down every killed man that is tossed to them.

  Herman Melville

  Dog, Fighting, Animal

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.327, Velvet Element Books

• That hour in the life of a man when first the help of humanity fails him, and he learns that in his obscurity and indigence humanity holds him a dog and no man: that hour is a hard one, but not the hardest. There is still another hour which follows, when he learns that in his infinite comparative minuteness and abjectness, the gods do likewise despise him, and own him not of their clan.

  Herman Melville

  Dog, Men, Rejection

  Herman Melville (1996). “Pierre: or, The Ambiguities”, p.296, Penguin

• No town-bred dandy will compare with a country-bred one- I mean a downright bumpkin dandy- a fellow that, in the dog-days of summer, will mow his two acres in buckskin gloves for fear of tanning his hands.

  Herman Melville

  Summer, Country, Dog

  Herman Melville (1974). “Moby Dick; or, The Whale”, p.23, Lulu.com

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