tigers quotes

The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

-William Blake
  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell,'Proverbs of Hell'.

You've missed the point completely, Julia: There were no tigers. That was the point.

-T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
  The Cocktail Party, act1, sc.1, opening lines.

It was unhealthyand unsafe, and of no interest whatever. 'But what,' I said,'about thetigers ?' 'Tigers, perhaps,' he replied pityingly,'but no culture.'

- Sir Fitzroy Hew Maclean
  Of Lenkoran,  Azerbaijan, in discussion with an  Armenian official. Eastern  Approaches.

Only, here and there, an old sailor, Drunk and asleep in his boots, Catches tigers In red weather.

-Wallace Stevens
  Harmonium,'Disillusionment ofTen O'Clock'.