Classic Melville Quotes

#1. I was such a messed up person and he was still holding on.

Holly Hood

#2. Ah, Master Bates," I said with deep thought. "Why yes, I think I will speak to him." "I

Mitty Walters

#3. I am very proud to have kept my commitment to introduce the married couples' tax allowance. I think it will prove very popular. I think it's absolutely right that we recognise marriage in the tax system properly, and I would like to see that expanded.

David Cameron

#4. Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning.

George D. Prentice

#5. 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

#6. This was after stew. But then, so is everything. When the first man crawled out of the slime and went to make his home on land, what he had for dinner that night was stew.

William Goldman