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This is Ahab, that's Jezebel," said Evie, who was one of those who name animals after the less successful characters of Old Testament history.
— E. M. Forster
Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last
— Sena Jeter Naslund
blow your trump - blister your lungs! - Ahab will dam off your blood, as a miller shuts his watergate upon the stream!
— Herman Melville
People who criticize power in the Jewish community are regarded the way Ahab treated Elijah: You're a traitor.
— Noam Chomsky
Ahab and aguish lay stretched together in one hammock.
— Herman Melville
Oh, Ahab! what shall be grand in thee, it must needs be plucked at from the skies, and dived for in the deep, and featured in the unbodied air!
— Herman Melville
Reality outran apprehension; Captain Ahab stood upon his quarter-deck.
— Herman Melville
As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, "All mortal greatness is but disease.
— Nathaniel Philbrick
To accomplish his object Ahab must use tools; and of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are most apt to get out of order.
— Herman Melville
Every time Elvis sings, he makes a bargain with the devil -- just like Captain Ahab in MOBY DICK!
— Greil Marcus
Ahab still stood like an anvil, receiving every shock, but without the least quivering of his own.
— Herman Melville
From beneath his slouched hat Ahab dropped a tear into the sea; nor did all the Pacific contain such wealth as that one wee drop.
— Herman Melville
Satan turned Eve's eye to the apple, Achan's eye to the wedge of gold, Ahab's eye to Naboth's vineyard, and then what work did he make with them!
— Joseph Alleine
