Lion Quotes - page 5

When gnats act in concert they will bring down an elephant: when ants set to work, and move in a body, they can strip a fierce lion of its hide. (Saadi)
You sought to prove how I could love, And my disdain is my reply. The lion on your old stone gates Is not more cold to you than I. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Charm us, orator, till the lion look no larger than the cat. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Two centuries ago the people of this country were engaged in a fearful conflict with the Crown. A despotic and treacherous monarch assumed to himself the right to levy taxes without the consent of Parliament and the people. That assumption was resisted. This fair island became a battlefield, the kingdom was convulsed, and an ancient throne overturned. And if our forefathers, two hundred years ago, resisted that attempt-if they refused to be the bondmen of a king-shall we be the born thralls of an aristocracy like ours? Shall we, who struck the lion down-shall we pay the wolf homage? Or shall we not, by a manly and united expression of public opinion, at once, and for ever, put an end to this giant wrong? View quote
John Bright
Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someone's finger as long as one pleases, but looking into the eyes of another person is, if prolonged past a second, a perilous affair? View quote
Walker Percy
That beast of the Apocalypse, to whom is given a mouth speaking blasphemies, and to make war with the saints, is sitting on the throne of Peter, like a lion ready for his prey. View quote
Bernard of Clairvaux
You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion. View quote
William Tecumseh Sherman
I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Then he rose and began to pace the room in an overwrought sort of way, like a zoo lion who has heard the dinner-gong go and is hoping the keeper won't forget him in the general distribution. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
He is my dog, Toto," answered Dorothy. "Is he made of tin, or stuffed?" asked the Lion. "Neither. He's a-- a-- a meat dog," said the girl. View quote
L. Frank Baum
All the other animals in the forest naturally expect me to be brave, for the Lion is everywhere thought to be the King of Beasts. I learned that if I roared very loudly every living thing was frightened and got out of my way. Whenever I've met a man I've been awfully scared; but I just roared at him, and he has always run away as fast as he could go. If the elephants and the tigers and the bears had ever tried to fight me, I should have run myself - I'm such a coward; but just as soon as they hear me roar they all try to get away from me, and of course I let them go. (L. Frank Baum)
You will be very welcome," answered Dorothy, "for you will help to keep away the other wild beasts. It seems to me they must be more cowardly than you are if they allow you to scare them so easily." "They really are," said the Lion, "but that doesn't make me any braver, and as long as I know myself to be a coward I shall be unhappy. View quote
L. Frank Baum
The Lion strode through the Halls of Hell; Across his path grim shadows fell Of many a mowing, nameless shape Monsters with dripping jaws agape. The darkness shuddered with scream and yell When the Lion stalked through the Halls of Hell. View quote
Robert E. Howard
Dog, ounce, bear, and bull, Wolfe, lion, horse. View quote
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail. View quote
John Dryden
Singapura means lion-city; prehistoric, myopic, Sanskrit-speaking visitors having spotted a mangy tiger or two in the mangroves. Sly Malays sometimes call it Singa pura-pura, which means ‘pretending to be a lion'....It is a profoundly provincial town pretending to be a metropolis. View quote
Anthony Burgess
For the lion to to prosper the deer must die. All the world is combat. View quote
David Gemmell
It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer. View quote
Dorothea Lange
Savage as a lion, timid as a rabbit, crafty as a fox... View quote
Lu Xun
I remember in the circus learning that the clown was the prince, the high prince. I always thought that the high prince was the lion or the magician, but the clown is the most important. View quote
Roberto Benigni
The hill-cat boasts some cunning of her own, Some stealthy tricks to better beasts unknown That quick with prey enough her hunger blunts And feeds her fat while gaunt the lion hunts. (Robert Browning)
When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality. View quote
Julie Taymor
I've always liked, someday the lamb will lay by the lion.... but it won't get much sleep. View quote
Woody Allen
The great gold planet that is the mourning heat of the Sun Is greater than all gold, more powerful Than the tawny body of a Lion that fire consumes Like all that grows or leaps... so is the heart More powerful than all dust. View quote
Edith Sitwell
And I shall search my soul, I shall search my very soul, For the lion, For the lion, For the lion, For the lion inside me. View quote
Van Morrison