Jack London Quotes

I'll have you know I do the swearing on this ship. If I need your assitance I'll call you. Capt. Wolf Larsen

If only I were articulate to paint in the frail medium of words what I see and know and possess incorporated in my consciousness of the mighty driftage of the races in the times before our present wri...

It was the worst hurt he had ever known.

John Thornton stood over Buck, struggling to control himself, too convulsed with rage to speak. If you strike that dog again, I'll kill you, he at last managed to say in a choking voice.

Man always gets less than he demands from life; and so little do they demand, that the less than little they get cannot save them.

Mexican

Much of the Wild had been lost, so that to them the Wild was the unknown, the terrible, the ever menacing and ever warring. But to him, in appearance and action and impulse, still clung the Wild.

No man can be intellectually insulted. Insult, in its very nature, is emotional.

Of course it was beautiful; but there was something more than beauty in it, something more stingingly splendid which had made beauty its handmaiden.

Still more. When I was three, and four, and five years of age, I was not yet I. I was a mere becoming, a flux of spirit not yet cooled solid in the mold of my particular flesh and time and place. In t...

The dark circle became a dot on the moon-flooded snow as Spitz disappeared from view.

The dominant primordial beast was strong in Buck

The first theft marked Buck as fit to survive in the hostile Northland environment. It marked his adaptability, his capacity to adjust himself to changing conditions, the lack of which would have mean...

The hand descended. Nearer and nearer it came. It touched the ends of his upstanding hair. He shrank down under it. It followed down after him, pressing more closely against him. Shrinking, almost shi...

The months came and went, and back and forth they twisted through the uncharted vastness, where no men were and yet where men had been if the Lost Cabin were true. They went across divides in summer b...

Their highest concept of right conduct, in his case, was to get a job. That was their first word and their last. It constituted their whole lexicon of ideas. Get a job! Go to work! Poor, stupid slaves...

Then the business game is to make profits out of others, and to prevent others from making profits out of you.

This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone.

This man did not know cold. Possibly, all the generations of his ancestry had been ignorant of cold, of real cold, of cold 107 degrees below freezing point. But the dog knew; all its ancestry knew, an...

For the pride of trace and trail was his, and sick unto death, he could not bear that another dog should do his work.