Wolf Quotes

A gentleman is simply a patient wolf. (Lana Turner)
I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds. View quote
Bela Lugosi
Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. View quote
Saul Bellow
All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf. View quote
Thomas Fuller
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. View quote
Tennessee Williams
The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years to late, were adopted by the kids as much as they were by us. View quote
Harpo Marx
Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be. View quote
Francis Bacon
The dove loves when it quarrels the wolf hates when it flatters. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
Careless shepherd make excellent dinner for wolf. (Earl Derr Biggers)
The wolf always charges the lamb with muddying the stream. View quote
Elihu Root
She offered herself to the big, bad wolf and didn't scream when he took the first bite. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, self-preservation in the other. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
I associated it [the word 'Hourloupe', as title of his longest series of work he made exclusively from 1962 to 1974] by assonance with 'hurler' (to shout), hululer (to howl), loup, (wolf), 'Riquet à la Houppe' and the title of Maupassant's book ‘Le Horla', inspired by mental distraction. View quote
Jean Dubuffet
I had a hard time watching Wolf Creek. It is a film with one clear purpose: To establish the commercial credentials of its director by showing his skill at depicting the brutal tracking, torture and mutilation of screaming young women. When the killer severs the spine of one of his victims and calls her "a head on a stick," I wanted to walk out of the theater and keep on walking. View quote
Roger Ebert
Let's be perfectly clear, shall we. The fox is not a little orange puppy dog with doe eyes and a waggly tail. It's a disease-ridden wolf with the morals of a psychopath and the teeth of a great white shark. View quote
Jeremy Clarkson
I am not a wolf in sheep's clothing, I'm a wolf in wolf's clothing. View quote
Ricky Gervais
If you could breathe a breath so strong you could blow out the wolf. Like you blow out the copo. Like you blow out the fire from the candela. The wolf is made the way the world is made. You cannot touch the world. You cannot hold it in your hand for it is made of breath only. View quote
Cormac McCarthy
A Wolf eats sheep but now and then; Ten thousands are devour'd by men. An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretend friend is worse. View quote
John Gay
When I was 4 years old ... I dreamt that I'd been eaten by a wolf, and to my great surprise I was in the wolf's stomach and not in heaven. (Bertrand Russell)
I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf. View quote
George Chapman
For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
Hold it. You know what I'd like to see? I'd like to see the three bears eat the three little pigs, and then the bears join up with the big bad wolf and eat Goldilocks and Little Red Riding Hood! Tell me a story like that, OK? View quote
Bill Watterson
If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf. View quote
Nikita Khrushchev
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