We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.
Musick has Charms to sooth a savage Breast. . .
We're not savages. We're English.
I read anything I could get my hands on: science fiction, fantasy, horror, thrillers. I even became hooked on the Bantam reprints of the old pulp novels from thirties and forties: Doc Savage, The Shadow, The Avenger.
Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
Don't denounce our pain as savage. What's savage is the cruel inhumanity and brutality of the police. Condemn that.
Don't be surprised if I behave like a savage. I am a savage
And what's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man.
An important job of the critic is to savage what is mediocre or meretricious.
No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.
Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind.
Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded "I ate civilization.
Captive Greece took captive her savage conqueror.
Civilize the mind but make savage the body.
Wolves and bears, they say, casting their savagery aside, have done like offices of pity.
The savages are upon me and I feel my flesh burn beneath the teeth of their indifference.
Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful--but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.
In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.
Women are amazing creatures-sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are.
Pity is not natural to man. Children always are cruel. Savages are always cruel.