Savages Quotes - Page 19

• A marriage is a private thing. It has its own wild laws, and secret histories, and savage acts, and what passes between married people is incomprehensible to outsiders. We look terrible to you, and severe, and you see our blood flying, but what we carry between us is hard-won, and we made it just as we wished it to be, just the color, just the shape.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Blood, Color, Law

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• At least, you two have decent manners," says Effie as we're finishing the main course. "The pair last year ate everything with their hands like a couple of savages. It completely upset my digestion." ... My mother taught Prim and me to eat properly, so yes, I can handle a fork and knife. But I hate Effie Trinket's comment so much I make a point of eating the rest of my meal with my fingers. Then I wipe my hands on the tablecloth. This makes her purse her lips tightly together.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mother, Couple, Hate

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• I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.

  Emily Bronte

  Inspirational, Girl, Women

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.456, Penguin

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• I took delight in hurling books across the room if I knew I would not be reading the second chapter. Then I’d go and pick them up again, because they are books, after all, and we are not savages.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Reading, Delight

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• Property is desirable as the ground work of moral independence, as a means of improving the faculties, and of doing good to others, and as the agent in all that distinguishes the civilized man from the savage.

  James F. Cooper

  Mean, Men, Independence

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• Against my will, I became a witness to the most terrible defeat of reason and to the most savage triumph of brutality ever chroniclednever before did a generation suffer such a moral setback after it had attained such intellectual heights.

  Stefan Zweig

  History, Intellectual, Suffering

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• When we reflect upon the cruelties daily practised upon such of the animal creation as are given us for food, or which we ensnarefor our diversion, we shall be obliged to own that there is more of the savage in human nature than we are aware of.

  Samuel Richardson

  Animal, Human Nature, Creation

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.109

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• The British hamburger thus symbolised, with savage neatness, the country's failure to provide its ordinary people with food which did anything more for them than sustain life.

  Clive James

  Country, Food, People

  Clive James (2013). “The Complete Unreliable Memoirs”, p.294, Pan Macmillan

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• Many savage nations worship trees, and I really think my first feeling would be one of delight and interest rather than of surprise, if some day when I am alone in the woods one of the trees were to speak to me.

  John Lubbock

  Nature, Thinking, Tree

  John Lubbock (1913). “The Pleasures of the Life”

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• The dark side of blogging is, of course, people can be (and are) just savage and uncivilized, deeply cruel and fully unaccountable.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Dark, People, Blogging

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• The savage nations of the globe are the common enemies of civilized society; and we may inquire, with anxious curiosity, whether Europe is still threatened with a repetition of those calamities, which formerly oppressed the arms and institutions of Rome.

  Edward Gibbon

  Rome, Europe, Curiosity

  Edward Gibbon (1840). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”

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• Music is good for everybody. They say it soothes the savage beast. Well, I think theirs a beast in all of us. So let's get some more music and soothe all the beasts out there.

  B. B. King

  Thinking, Beast, Music Is

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• "Stepping outside your comfort zone is supposed to feel uncomfortable because we're in new and unfamiliar territory. Being uncomfortable is a sign of success, NOT of failure! So if we are uncomfortably outside our comfort zones, then than means we are growing!!! And THAT is cause for celebration!" (modified from a passage in Roz Savage's "Rowing the Atlantic")

  Roz Savage

  Mean, Comfort, Growing

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• How many families, whose members have been dispersed and scattered far and wide, in the restless struggles of life, are then reunited, and meet once again in that happy state of companionship and mutual goodwill, which is a source of such pure and unalloyed delight; and one so incompatible with the cares and sorrows of the world, that the religious belief of the most civilized nations, and the rude traditions of the roughest savages, alike number it among the first joys of a future condition of existence, provided for the blessed and happy!

  Charles Dickens

  Religious, Struggle, Blessed

  Charles Dickens (2016). “The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.310, Pan Macmillan

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• When James Calvert went out as a missionary to the cannibals of the Fiji Islands, the ship captain tried to turn him back, saying, "You will lose your life and the lives of those with you if you go among such savages". To that, Calvert replied, "We died before we came here". Believers who have the Gospel keep mumbling it over and over to themselves. Meanwhile, millions who have never heard it once fall into the flames of eternal hell without ever hearing the salvation story.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Fall, Islands, Flames

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• In the name of justice the most savage and revolting acts are perpetrated.

  Ricardo Flores Magon

  Names, Justice

  Ricardo Flores Magón (2000). “Correspondencia: Correspondencia 1 (1899-1918)”

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• The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves for the general Good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry.

  H. G. Wells

  Lying, Men, Conspiracy

  'Love and Mr Lewisham' (1900) ch. 23

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• When you're writing something, and you're putting yourself out there, or you're performing and someone comes in and savages that, then of course it feels personal. It doesn't feel like it's just business, because there's no business - it's not like we're conducting business, this anonymous critic and I. It's just that this person is tearing me a new asshole.

  Michael Ian Black

  Writing, Conducting, Performing

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. July 16, 2008.

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• We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.

  Tennessee Williams

  Heart, Mean, People

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• If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.

  C. S. Lewis

  Ideas, Would Be, Morality

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Mere Christianity”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• They said, “You are a savage and dangerous woman.” I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Independent, Truth Is, Said

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• Music is a savage art, a measured madness.

  Edward Abbey

  Art, Madness, Music Is

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.41, RosettaBooks

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• The tops of mountains are among the unfinished parts of the globe, whither it is a slight insult to the gods to climb and pry intotheir secrets, and try their effect on our humanity. Only daring and insolent men, perchance, go there. Simple races, as savages, do not climb mountains,--their tops are sacred and mysterious tracts never visited by them. Pomola is always angry with those who climb the summit of Ktaadn.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Pride, Simple, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “The Most Alive is the Wildest – Thoreau’s Complete Works on Living in Harmony with the Nature: Walden, Walking, Night and Moonlight, The Highland Light, A Winter Walk, The Maine Woods, A Walk to Wachusett, The Landlord, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Autumnal Tints, Wild Apples…”, p.558, e-artnow

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• I said (to Daniel Jones), 'You realise I'm always going to be The Guy From Savage Garden'. He said, 'How do you think I feel? I'm The Other One From Savage Garden!'

  Darren Hayes

  Garden, Thinking, Guy

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• How amazing that the language of a few thousand savages living on a fog-encrusted island in the North Sea should become the language of the world.

  Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley

  Fog, Sea, Islands

  "The Scourge Of Teleprompters" by Jack Valenti, www.nytimes.com. July 10, 1984.

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