Hannibal famous quotes

The thought that my life could end at any moment frees me to fully appreciate the beauty and art and horror of everything this world has to offer.
-- Hannibal

#Art #Appreciate #World

We must either find a way or make one.
-- Hannibal

#Change #Way

Whenever feasible, one should always try to eat the rude.
-- Hannibal

#Rude #Trying #Should

Perception is a tool that's pointed on both ends.
-- Hannibal

#Perception #Tools #Ends

The mirrors in your mind can reflect the best of yourself, not the worst of someone else.
-- Hannibal

#Mirrors #Mind #Worst

Paint the entire ship? Id rather eat my cigar!
-- Hannibal

#Ships #Cigar #Paint

Psychopaths are not crazy; they are fully aware of what they do, and the consequences of those actions.
-- Hannibal

#Crazy #Action #Psychopath

I have no interest in understanding sheep, only eating them.
-- Hannibal

#Sheep #Understanding #Eating

You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.
-- Hannibal

#Vanity #Intellectual #Appeals

The mongoose I want under the stairs when the snakes slither by.
-- Hannibal

#Snakes #Want #Stairs

And be grateful. Our scars have the power to remind us that the past was real.
-- Hannibal

#Real #Grateful #Past

God has given to man no sharper spur to victory than contempt of death.
-- Hannibal

#Men #Victory #Spurs

A robin red-breast in a cage, puts all of Heaven in a rage. Think to yourself that every day is your last. The hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise. As for me, when you want a good laugh, you will find me in fine state... fat and sleek, a true hog of Epicurus's herd.
-- Hannibal

#Thinking #Laughing #Heaven

I swear so soon as age will permit ... I will use fire and steel to arrest the destiny of Rome.
-- Hannibal

#Destiny #Fire #Rome

Your dreams were the one place you could be physically safe.
-- Hannibal

#Dream #Safe

Nothing more isolating than a mental illness.
-- Hannibal

#Mental Illness #Illness

I was curious what would happen,
-- Hannibal

#Curious

We will find a way or we shall make one
-- Hannibal

#Way

We are built from a DNA blueprint and born into a world of  scenario and circumstance we don't control.
-- Hannibal

#Dna #World #Born

If you pay peanuts, you wind up hiring monkeys.
-- Hannibal

#Wind #Monkeys #Pay

I'm generally never at a lack for words, but it's indescribable how poor the response was from our own government officials, ... We could have coffee for three hours and never get through all the horrors I've seen. Where was the help when we needed it?
-- Hannibal

#Coffee #Government #Three

You put the life in your belly and you live.
-- Hannibal

#Belly

It's not what you appreciate; it's that you appreciate.
-- Hannibal

#Appreciate

Words are living things. They have personality, point of view... agenda.
-- Hannibal

#Views #Personality #Agendas

Let us now relieve the Romans of their fears by the death of a feeble old man.
-- Hannibal

#Men #Old Man #Last Words

We evolved the ability to communicate disappointment to teach those around us good manners
-- Hannibal

#Disappointment #Good Man #Manners

As a doctor I had no choice. As a philosopher I had too many.
-- Hannibal

#Doctors #Choices #Philosopher

I have come not to make war on the Italians, but to aid the Italians against Rome.
-- Hannibal

#War #Rome #Aids

Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me,
-- Hannibal

#Ugly

Let us ease the Roman people of their continual care, who think it long to await the death of an old man.
-- Hannibal

#Men #Thinking #Long

Many things which nature makes difficult become easy to the man who uses his brains.
-- Hannibal

#Men #Brain #Use

All good things to those who wait.
-- Hannibal

#Waiting #Good Things

As your mother tells you, and my mother certainly told me, it is important, she always used to say, always to try new things.
-- Hannibal

#Mother #Important #Trying

Killing must feel good to God too. He does it all the time. Did God feel good about that? He felt powerful.
-- Hannibal

#Powerful #Feel Good #Doe

You want the scent? Smell yourself!
-- Hannibal

#Smell #Scent #Want

I am not carrying on a war of extermination against the Romans. I am contending for honor and empire. My ancestors yielded to Roman valour. I am endeavouring that others, in their turn, will be obliged to yield to my good fortune, and my valour.
-- Hannibal

#War #Yield #Honor