Famous quotes by Novelists

George Meredith, Novelist

"A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are"

George Meredith, Novelist

"Who rises from prayer, a better man, his prayer is answered"

George Meredith, Novelist

"The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere"

George Meredith, Novelist

"She poured a little social sewage into his ears"

George Meredith, Novelist

"The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination"

George Meredith, Novelist

"Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity"

George Meredith, Novelist

"There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals"

Herman Melville, Novelist

"Yet habit - strange thing! What cannot habit accomplish?"

Herman Melville, Novelist

"It is not down in any map; true places never are"

Herman Melville, Novelist

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation"

Herman Melville, Novelist

"In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers"

Herman Melville, Novelist

"Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending"

Herman Melville, Novelist

"He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great"

Herman Melville, Novelist

"He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it"

Herman Melville, Novelist

"Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth"

Herman Melville, Novelist

"Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian"

Herman Melville, Novelist

"At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect"

Herman Melville, Novelist

"A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities"

Herman Melville, Novelist

"A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things"

Herman Melville, Novelist

"Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things"

Herman Melville, Novelist

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men"

Herman Melville, Novelist

"Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister"

Herman Melville, Novelist

"Truth is in things, and not in words"

Herman Melville, Novelist

"To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living"

Herman Melville, Novelist

"To be hated cordially, is only a left-handed compliment"

Herman Melville, Novelist

"There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future"

Herman Melville, Novelist

"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, Novelist

"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method"

Herman Melville, Novelist

"The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love"

Herman Melville, Novelist

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