“A wounded tiger is a dangerous beast.”
Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha
Source: Memoirs of a Geisha
Fiction, The Crawling Chaos (1921)
“A wounded tiger is a dangerous beast.”
Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha
Source: Memoirs of a Geisha
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (1899–1938) Romanian politician
For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard (1936), Nation and Culture
“Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.”
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature
Jorge Luis Borges book Other Inquisitions
"A New Refutation of Time" (1946) [" Nueva refutación del tiempo http://www.monografias.com/trabajos11/filoylit/filoylit.shtml"]<br>Variant translations:<br>And yet, and yet... Denying temporal succession, denying the self, denying the astronomical universe, are obvious acts of desperation and secret consolation. Our fate (unlike the hell of Swedenborg or the hell of Tibetan mythology) is not frightful because it is unreal; it is frightful because it is irreversible and ironclad. Time is the thing I am made of. Time is a river that sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that tears me apart, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire. The world, unfortunately, is real; I, unfortunately, am Borges.<br>Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire. <br class="br">Other Inquisitions (1952) <br class="br">Source: Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings <br class="br">Context: Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire. The world, unfortunately, is real; I, unfortunately, am Borges. <br class="br">Context: And yet, and yet... Denying temporal succession, denying the self, denying the astronomical universe, are apparent desperations and secret consolations. Our destiny is not frightful by being unreal; it is frightful because it is irreversible and iron-clad. Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire. The world, unfortunately, is real; I, unfortunately, am Borges.
“The Lady or The Tiger,'
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'My lady, the tiger”
Holly Black book The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
“I am a cub of a tiger; don't mistake me with a carcass eating dog.”
Amar Singh Thapa (1751–1816) Supreme Commander of the Western Front of Nepal
Translated by Arjun Bhadra Khanal https://500px.com/photo/29827237/amar-singh-thapa-badakaji-by-arjun-bhadra-khanal|<br>In the context of wealth offered by British General David Ochterlony during Anglo-Nepalese War. <br class="br">Quote
Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights
Isabella Linton on Heathcliff (Ch. XIII).
Wuthering Heights (1847)
Heywood Broun (1888–1939) American sportswriter
Quoted by Lin Yutang in The Wisdom of China and India http://books.google.com/books?ei=hCIHT_v4Bqbu0gGz0YWMAw&id=T1gOAAAAYAAJ&q=&quot;Appeasers+believe+that+if+you+keep+on+throwing+steaks+to+a+tiger+the+tiger+will+become+a+vegetarian&quot;&pg=PA268#v=onepage (1942)