Savage

Famous quotes containing the word savage:

“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 (1819–1891)

“Twenty years hence my eyes may grow
If not quite dim, yet rather so,
Still yours from others they shall know”
—Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)

“If your little savage were left to himself and be allowed to retain all his ignorance, he would in time join the infant’s reasoning to the grown man’s passion, he would strangle his father and sleep with his mother.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)