Thomas Harris Quotes

Honey, ... When a wolf watches a lamb, he's not thinking about the lamb's mommy.

When a lion doesn't get its prey, it remains hungry. When the prey saves himself, he has not won, but has saved his life.

Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.

We were like deer. They were like grizzly bear.

That's what the cat said to the canary when he swallowed him - 'You'll be all right.'

Before I was the hunter. Now I'm the hunted.

I feel rather like a rabbit that has taken a fox for its pupil.

Though the Fox run, the chicken hath wings.

Alright...here's the deal. What's happening in this piece is very simple, over here on this side...you see that there is a very scared little kinda guy over there...wanna know why he's scared? Because this guy over here is trying to eat him.

The fox often offers the duck its pond.

The cat does not negotiate with the mouse.

Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?

So the lion is the law-breaker. Just as to the primitive man the lion is the lawbreaker, the great nuisance, dangerous to human beings and to animals, that breaks into the Kraal at night and fetches the bull out of the herd: he is the destructive instinct.

Naked lions are just as dangerous as elegantly dressed ones

When a cow lives with the butcher, sooner or later he gets eaten unless he helps the other cows off to their slaughter. (Nick)

I don't keer w'at you do wid me, Brer Fox,' sezee, 'so you don't fling me in dat brier-patch. Roas' me, Brer Fox' sezee, 'but don't fling me in dat brier-patch,' sezee.

A short-order cook, just off work, makes easy tracking for lions and worse

A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain.

Hee that makes himself a sheep, shall be eat by the wolfe.

Seducers are more dangerous enemies to the church than persecutors.

There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.

Appeasement is feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last.

One thing I've learned about vampires--they keep pulling new rabbits out of their cloaks. Big, fanged, carnivorous bunnies that'll eat your eyeballs if you're not paying attention.

to. I will trick you and deceive you, lie, cheat and steal to find you, tempt you out of your hiding place, and chase you until you have nowhere else to run. I make you this promise: your life is mine

The world is full of women, and the women full of wile; so that a man, if he goeth not warily withal, shall surely fall a prey thereunto.