Famous quotes containing the word savage:
“But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a mans bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“Stand close around,ye Stygian set,
With Dirce in one boat conveyd,
Or Charon, seeing, may forget
That he is old, and she a shade.”
—Walter Savage Landor (17751864)
“You seem to me as Dian in her orb,
As chaste as is the bud ere it be blown;
But you are more intemperate in your blood
Than Venus, or those pampered animals
That rage in savage sensuality.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
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