Fangs Quotes

• Thou call'st me dog before thou hadst a cause, But since I am a dog, beware my fangs.

  William Shakespeare

  Cute, Dog, Shylock

  William Shakespeare (1709). “The Works of Mr. William Shakespear: In Eight Volumes. Adorn'd with Cuts”, p.567

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• It's not the fur or the fangs that make you a monster, not always. Sometimes, it's just where you draw the line.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Monsters, Fur, Lines

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Burnt Offerings: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.53, Penguin

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• Everybody's got a 'thing.' Some 'things' are nice and quiet. Some 'things' have fangs and claws. Some 'things' stink and have slobber everywhere.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Nice, Quiet, Stink

  "EXCLUSIVE: Iyanla Vanzant Dishes on Fix My Life, Growth, and Her Mission for Viewers". Interview with Regina R. Robertson, www.essence.com. September 14, 2012.

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• Perhaps I just wasn't scary enough. Maybe I should invest in some horns or fangs.

  Ilona Andrews

  Scary, Enough, Should

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.143, Penguin

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• Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Freedom, Liberty, Libertarian

  Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero (2006). “De Officiis Or on Duties on Obligations”, p.145, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten. The law was: EAT OR BE EATEN. He did not formulate the law in clear, set terms and moralize about it. He did not even think the law; he merely lived the law without thinking about it at all.

  Jack London

  Thinking, Law, Meat

  Jack London (2016). “The Call of the Wild and White Fang”, p.124, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.

  Plautus

  Men, Delay, World

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• Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

  Tennessee Williams

  Success, Congratulations, Artist

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• The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.

  Jack London

  Meat, Aim Of Life, Aim

  Jack London (2015). “White Fang (Arcadia Classics)”, p.76, Jack London

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• It was the worst hurt he had ever known.

  Jack London

  Hurt, Worst, Known

  Jack London, JACK LONDON (2015). “White Fang (Arcadia Classics)”, p.86, Jack London

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• But it did not all happen in a day, this giving over of himself, body and soul, to the man-animals. He could not immediately forego his wild heritage and his memories of the Wild. There were days when he crept to the edge of the forest and stood and listened to something calling him far and away.

  Jack London

  Memories, Animal, Men

  Jack London (2016). “Klondike Two Pack: The Call of the Wild and White Fang”, p.128, Lulu.com

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• Of her own experience she had no memory of the thing happening; but in her instinct, which was the experience of all mothers of wolves, there lurked a memory of fathers that had eaten their new-born and helpless progeny.

  Jack London

  Mother, Memories, Father

  Jack London, JACK LONDON (2015). “White Fang (Arcadia Classics)”, p.54, Jack London

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• On the sled, in the box, lay a third man whose toil was over, - a man whom the Wild had conquered and beaten down until he would never move nor struggle again. It is not the way of the Wild to like movement. Life is an offense to it, for life is movement; and the Wild aims always to destroy movement.

  Jack London

  Struggle, Moving, Men

  Jack London (2000). “The Call of the Wild, White Fang & To Build a Fire: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.80, Modern Library

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• He was always striving to attain it. The life that was so swiftly expanding within him, urged him continually toward the wall of light. The life that was within him knew that it was the one way out, the way he was predestined to tread.

  Jack London

  Wall, Light, Way

  Jack London, JACK LONDON (2015). “White Fang (Arcadia Classics)”, p.61, Jack London

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• Thus it was that in obedience to the law laid down by his mother, and in obedience to the law of that unknown and nameless thing, fear, he kept away from the mouth of the cave.

  Jack London

  Mother, Law, Caves

  Jack London (2011). “Call of The Wild, White Fang”, p.207, Bantam Classics

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• His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub's fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.

  Jack London

  Abiding, Fear Of The Unknown, Appearance

  Jack London, JACK LONDON (2015). “White Fang (Arcadia Classics)”, p.70, Jack London

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• They were firemakers! They were gods! [humans]

  Jack London

  Humans

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• Out of this pack-persecution he learned two important things: how to take care of himself in a mass-fight against him; and how, on a single dog, to inflict the greatest amount of damage in the briefest space of time.

  Jack London

  Dog, Fighting, Two

  Jack London (2016). “Klondike Two Pack: The Call of the Wild and White Fang”, p.134, Lulu.com

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• He became quicker of movement than the other dogs, swifter of foot, craftier, deadlier, more lithe, more lean with ironlike muscle and sinew, more enduring, more cruel more ferocious, and more intelligent. He had to become all these things, else he would not have held his own nor survived the hostile environment in which he found himself.

  Jack London

  Dog, Intelligent, Feet

  Jack London (2016). “Jack London Six Pack”, p.115, Lulu.com

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• His bondage had softened him. Irresponsibility had weakened him. He had forgotten how to shift for himself. The night yawned about him.

  Jack London

  Night, Forgotten, Bondage

  Jack London, JACK LONDON (2015). “White Fang (Arcadia Classics)”, p.100, Jack London

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• The people I've encountered who are really dangerous in my life don't go around with their fangs drawn - they are dangerous because of the way they interpret what's going on.

  Ben Mendelsohn

  People, Way, Dangerous

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• I accept you as you are, and I will always hold you close in my heart. I will walk beside you forever. (Fang)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Heart, Forever, Accepting

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Bad Moon Rising: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.339, Macmillan

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• Sir, this is a unique dog. He does not live by tooth or fang. He respects the right of cats to be cats although he doesn't admire them. He turns his steps rather than disturb an earnest caterpillar. His greatest fear is that someone will point out a rabbit and suggest that he chase it. This is a dog of peace and tranquility.

  John Steinbeck

  Friendship, Dog, Humor

  John Steinbeck (2007). “Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947-1962”

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• Satire is an art best practiced behind the back of the intended target. I think inviting politicians on a satirical show becomes a very big trap. Because one of two things happen: Either you have to kind of unsharpen your fangs because you can't be quite as cruel to people to their face as you are behind their backs... Or you don't defang, and those guests get the word and they stop coming.

  Harry Shearer

  Art, Thinking, Two

  "How Harry Shearer Discovered the Soul of Richard Nixon". Interview with David Corn, www.motherjones.com. October 17, 2014.

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• We are the biggest sissies in the jungle. Every other animal is stronger than we are - they have fangs, they have claws, they have nimbleness, they have speed. We think Usain Bolt is fast - Usain Bolt can get his ass kicked by a squirrel.

  Christopher McDougall

  Motivation, Inspiration, Animal

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