Famous quotes containing the word savage:
“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)
“Intrepid, unprincipled, reckless, predatory, with boundless ambition, civilized in externals but a savage at heart, America is, or may yet be, the Paul Jones of nations.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“Mother, I cannot mind my wheel;
My fingers ache, my lips are dry:”
—Walter Savage Landor (17751864)
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