Best Captain Ahab Quotes

#1. As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, "All mortal greatness is but disease.

Nathaniel Philbrick

#2. Every time Elvis sings, he makes a bargain with the devil -- just like Captain Ahab in MOBY DICK!

Greil Marcus

#3. I was in George Martin's studio in Amsterdam and he was telling me, 'They come in here and it takes them three days to do a bass line.' Well I'm not from that era.

Ringo Starr

#4. Words were another sword for the man who wielded them well.

Brent Weeks

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

Stephen King

#6. One captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duelist at his foe, blindly seeking with a six-inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the whale. That captain was Ahab.

Herman Melville

#7. Claude Debussy defined the guitar as an expressive harpsicord. I believe that is the best definition ever given of the Spanish guitar. This phrase is the starting point for my Concierto de Aranjuez Our guitar is the only survivor of the rich and anarchic instrumental wildlife of the Middle Ages.

Joaquin Rodrigo

#8. Ahab and aguish lay stretched together in one hammock.

Herman Melville

#9. To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous.

Herman Melville

#10. Over his ivory-inlaid table, Ahab presided like a mute, maned sea-lion on the white coral beach, surrounded by his warlike but still deferential cubs. In his own proper turn, each officer waited to be served.

Herman Melville

#11. Captain Ahab drowned, he reminded himself; it was the trimmer, Ishmael, who survived.

Salman Rushdie

#12. The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life

George R R Martin

#13. The agent which cures prevents, and the agent that prevents cures.

Ernst T. Krebs

#14. Reality outran apprehension; Captain Ahab stood upon his quarter-deck.

Herman Melville