22 Quotes About Moby-dick

Peter held up the book he had been reading: 'Moby-Dick; or, The Whale'."To tell you the truth, I'm not even sure this is English," Peter said. "It's taken me most of today to get through a page.

She felt like Captain Ahab, for the first time sighting his great white whale.

He could’ve penned a rendition of Moby Dick in Pig Latin and he wouldn’t have been the wiser.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, he’d mused, that most people will never find their ‘call me Ishmael’.

Do you like Moby Dick?" he asks."I hate it," she says. "And I don't say that about many things. Teachers assign it, and parents are happy because their kids are reading something of 'quality.' But it's forcing kids to read books like that that make them think they hate reading.

...you would do well to turn from Chapter XXXVI to Chapter CXXXIII without further delay, thus saving nearly a hundred chapters without anybody's knowing the difference if you keep quiet. After all, Ahab isn't the only one entitled to be a skipper.

Shakespeare wrote Moby-Dick, using Melville as a Ouija board.

To be in the presence of a great leader is to know a blighted soul who has managed to make the darkness work for him. Ishmael says it best: "For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness. Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but a disease." In chapter 36, "The Quarter-Deck," Melville show us how susceptible we ordinary people are to the seductive power of a great and demented man.

For there are devils in the deep, but worst are the oneswe make.