Captain Ahab

"Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Cape of Good Hope again"

"He tasks me; he heaps me"

"I see in him outrageous strength with an inscrutable malice sinewing it"

"Swerve me? ye cannot swerve me, else ye swerve yourselves!"

"I own thy speechless, placeless power; said I not so?"

"What is it, what nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing is it?"

"A crew is only as strong as its weakest member's resolve"

"I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul."

"Aye, aye, it was that accursed white whale that razed me."

"I feel cooped up and caged; fain would I stretch myself in free air and under a wide sky."

"Ego non baptizo te in nomine patris, sed in nomine diaboli!"

"Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm?"

"The thing that moved my very soul to that mad intensity is as much a mystery to me as it is to you."

"Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Cape of Good Hope, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up."

"Strike through the mask! How and why the dramatic theatre shall yet enact unwritten chapters."

"Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee."

"From hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee."