Famous Herman Melville Quotes

  • All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad. – Herman Melville

    All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.– Herman Melville

  • All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.– Herman Melville

  • …the great floodgates of the wonder-world swung open… – Herman Melville

    …the great floodgates of the wonder-world swung open…– Herman Melville

  • Of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are the most apt to get out of order. – Herman Melville

    Of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are the most apt to get out of order.– Herman Melville

  • Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time? – Herman Melville

    Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time?– Herman Melville

  • Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time?– Herman Melville

  • War yet shall be, but warriors are now operatives; war’s made less grand than peace. – Herman Melville

    War yet shall be, but warriors are now operatives; war’s made less grand than peace.– Herman Melville

  • Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease. – Herman Melville

    Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.– Herman Melville

  • I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must not for that very reason infallibly be faulty. – Herman Melville

    I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must not for that very reason infallibly be faulty.– Herman Melville

  • Thy silence, then that voices thee. – Herman Melville

    Thy silence, then that voices thee.– Herman Melville