Savage Quotes

• We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of ourself.

  

  Farley Mowat
  • Savage
  • Epitome
  • Mythologized

• I, too, am beginning to feel an immense need to become a savage and create a new world.

  

  August Strindberg
  • World
  • Beginning
  • Immense

• Father of all! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord!

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Age
  • Father
  • Savage

• Savage – There is only one way fit for a man – Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Violence
  • Savage

• I am as free as Nature first made man,Ere the base laws of servitude began,When wild in woods the noble savage ran.

  

  John Dryden
  • Nature
  • Free
  • Savage

• Some savage faculty for observation told him that most respectable and estimable people usually had a lot of books in their houses.

  

  Flann O'Brien
  • People
  • Observation
  • Houses

• And waste their music on the savage race.

  

  Edward Young
  • Music
  • Savage

• His eyes were frighteningly alive, the curve of his mouth savage and pleased. It suddenly didn't seem at all surprising that he should be able to pull things from his dreams. In that moment, Blue was a little in love with all of them. Their magic. Their quest. Their awfulness and strangeness. Her raven boys.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Eyes
  • Magic
  • Blue

• My wife is the most savage critic. She doesn't feel intimidated by my reputation. As far as she's concerned, she's just criticising a boyfriend who'd recently had a go at fiction. She can tell me to abandon whole novels.

  

  Kazuo Ishiguro
  • She
  • Wife
  • Boyfriend

• If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Action
  • Movies
  • Week

• When an athlete has relegated the persistent rumors of cheating to the back room of the mind, he hasn't really forgotten them. And when he glances back to where rumors hunker in the darkness, he hopes with a savage heart that somehow, some day, those cheaters will be brought to justice.

  

  Don Kardong
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Justice

• Yeah, we're sweet but savage, and I think a lot of Canadians are that way.

  

  Bruce McCulloch
  • Sweet
  • Savage

• The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage.

  

  Plato
  • Athlete
  • Too Much
  • Savage

• It was fantastic playing Conan; it was such an experience to go out of the country and be this barbaric human savage child for a month or so. It was a blast and definitely a great experience.

  

  Leo Howard
  • Great
  • Country
  • Experience

• A savage review is much more entertaining for the reader than an admiring one; the little misanthrope in each of us relishes the rubbishing of someone else.

  

  Arthur Smith
  • Savage

• Now remember courage, go to the door,Open it and see whether coiled on the bedOr cringing by the wall, a savage beastMaybe with golden hair, with deep eyesLike a bearded spider on a sunlit floorWill snarl-and man can never be alone.

  

  Allen Tate
  • Remember
  • Alone
  • Hair

• Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a golden, savage landscape that we wander unaware, without a map. Be careful: in the last analysis, reality may be exactly what we think it is.

  

  Alan Moore
  • May
  • Reality
  • Savage

• There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • People
  • Peace
  • Violence

• How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.

  

  Nikolai Gogol
  • Savage
  • Manners
  • Refined

• I have learned in fashion to be a little savage.

  

  John Fairchild
  • Fashion
  • Savage

• The savage, rocky shores of Christmas Island, 200 miles south of Java, in the Indian Ocean. It's November, the moon is in its third quarter, and the sun is just setting. And in a few hours from now, on this very shore, a thousand million lives will be launched.

  

  David Attenborough
  • Sun
  • Moon
  • Christmas

• Relentlessly savage, 'The Passion' plays like the 'Gospel according to the Marquis de Sade'

  

  David Ansen
  • Play
  • Passion
  • Savages

• The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Savage
  • Conversion
  • Cristianity

• We Jews, thank God, have nothing to do with the East. . . . The Islamic soul must be broomed out of Eretz-Yisrael. . . . [Muslims are] yelling rabble dressed up in gaudy, savage rags.

  

  Ze'ev Jabotinsky
  • Up
  • God
  • Soul

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