Quotes About Mongoose

#1. It is the hardest thing in the world to frighten a mongoose, because he is eaten up from nose to tail with curiosity. The motto of all the mongoose family is "Run and find out," and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose.

Rudyard Kipling

#2. It's like Abuela says: Every snake always thinks it's biting into a rat until the day it bites into a mongoose. That

Junot Diaz

#3. Beside me, Philippe and Meg hold hands. He murmurs something that sounds like, "my dear leetle mongoose." I wish he'd turn back into a frog and hop away.

Alex Flinn

#4. So I'm to duel with a snake-hope I can manage to be a good enough impersonation of a mongoose.

Nick Bantock

#5. every predator loves easy prey. Her lip curled, baring fangs that there was no one there to see. Because she wasn't prey. In the vamp world, she was pretty much the apex predator, the mongoose to his snake. And she was about to Rikki Tikki Tavi his ass. Dory

Karen Chance

#6. Because of Kipling, I've sometimes wondered about keeping a mongoose about the house. But given the cobra population in Silver Spring, Maryland - zero, when last I checked - we hardly need a Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.

Michael Dirda

#7. Richard was thunderstruck: it had been like watching Emma Peel, Bruce Lee, and a particularly vicious tornado, all rolled into one and sprinkled with a generous helping of a mongoose killing a cobra. That was how she moved. That was how she fought.

Neil Gaiman

#8. The trouble with witches is that they'll never run away from things they really hate.
And the trouble with small furry animals in a corner is that, just occasionally, one of them's a mongoose.

Terry Pratchett

#9. the Lord Ratnasambhava keeps all his treasure inside mongooses. When the god needs his gems and jewels, he squeezes one mongoose and makes it vomit them up!

Jane Wilson-Howarth

#10. It had been like watching Emma Peel, Bruce Lee, and a particularly vicious tornado, all rolled into one and sprinkled with a generous helping of footage he had once seen on a wildlife program of a mongoose killing a king cobra

Neil Gaiman

#11. Fiction ... It's like goading a mongoose and a cobra into battle and staying with them to see who wins.

Shauna Singh Baldwin

#12. Their flashlight newly activated, they walked him into the cane
never had he heard anything so loud and alien, the susurration, the crackling, the flashes of motion underfoot (snake? mongoose?), overhead even the stars, all of them gathered in vainglorious congress.

Junot Diaz

#13. Rikki-tikki had a right to be proud of himself. But he did not grow too proud, and he kept that garden as a mongoose should keep it, with tooth and jump and spring and bite, till never a cobra dared show its head inside the walls.

Rudyard Kipling

#14. He was a mongoose, rather like a little cat in his fur and his tail, but quite like a weasel in his head and his habits.

Rudyard Kipling

#15. Like a junkie, I was jonesing for a romance novel coupling. I needed a pulsing pillar of passion, a mammoth mail member, a cocky cobra ready to tangle with my vaginal mongoose.
I also needed to think about upgrading my reading. My imagery was actually starting to bother me.

Alice Clayton

#16. The mongoose I want under the stairs when the snakes slither by.

Hannibal

#17. I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.

Jonathan Swift

#18. Somewhere along the Rio Concho, he had stopped feeling that he lived in a world where ledgers mattered.

Larry McMurtry

#19. I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.

Dick Cavett

#20. I had a deliberate plan to get into movies by becoming a model, so I went to New York and got a job pretending to be a mannequin in store windows.

Geena Davis

#21. The mastermind, the man with the plan

Mikey Way

#22. The quality of your life should get better as you get older and not worse. If not ... start reevaluating your life.

Timothy Pina

#23. Three mongooses, playing chase, burst out of the undergrowth and came galumphing across the track. The leader stopped and the other two bounced on him. There was a crazy bundle of squealing fur, ears, noses and tails. The mongooses broke apart. All three stood up on hind legs to look at us.

Jane Wilson-Howarth

#24. It's not that he doesn't love you enough to tell you the truth," she said. "It's that he loves you too much to risk it.

Jodi Picoult

#25. I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.

Ed Sheeran

#26. White people use their literature to maintain culture. That's why you find references to Milton and Spencer and Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky in contemporary novels.

Ntozake Shange

#27. I didn't even think about hiding anything - I honestly went into it [with the idea that] I'm going to show myself off because no one of my size has ever been in this magazine [Sports Illustrated] and I need other women to know that they are just as beautiful.

Ashley Graham

#28. Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.

William Hurt

#29. Let's chow, and then we'll get our books," Tony said. Just as the door was about to close behind us, he added, "You act like you've never had food before.

Rebecca Maizel

#30. Don't see anything impossible! This simple philosophy will enable many things to be possible!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#31. Now I get exposure first with people directly in the clubs. This is a unique situation for me.

Roy Ayers

#32. Even our hardest prayers are easy for the Omnipotent One to answer because there is no degree of difficulty.

Mark Batterson