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Quotes About Hannibal

If Paris were missing, he´d want the same guys looking for him. Seriously, the only team capable of getting better results would be Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers and Hannibal
~ Gena Showalter
Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-listened to the climax. He was watching and breathing Lady Murasaki...
~ Thomas Harris
I know what you're afraid of. It's not pain, or solitude. It's indignity you can't stand, Hannibal, you're like a cat that way.
~ Thomas Harris
Hannibal had entered his heart's long winter. He slept soundly and was not visited in dreams as humans are.
~ Thomas Harris
Hannibal could smell him.
~ Thomas Harris
Who's the subject? The psychiatrist - Dr. Hannibal Lecter, Crawford said. A brief silence follows the name, always, in any civilized gathering.
~ Thomas Harris
If Paris were missing, he´d want the same guys looking for him. Seriously, the only team capable of getting better results would be Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers and Hannibal
~ Gena Showalter
Or in a gothic version of the genre, the asshole is the jerk who's the first to get chopped up in a slasher film or the first to be chomped up in one of the Hannibal Lecter movies. But Lecter himself is the furthest thing in the world from an asshole. Whatever else he may be, he's scarcely self-deluded.
~ Geoffrey Nunberg
I have come not to make war on the Italians, but to aid the Italians against Rome.
~ Hannibal
I've put a lot of records out and a lot of soundtracks, and 'Hannibal' is kind of a special one.
~ Brian Reitzell
Weird like Murdock, thinkin' like Hannibal, Man like Face but I'm wild like B.A.
~ Styles P
Donald Cameron has his own character in the world now!?" Skeletor exclaimed, in somewhat the same tone of voice as a tribune might have said, Hannibal has crossed the Alps with elephants!?
~ Neal Stephenson
I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti
~ Thomas Harris
I'm giving serious thought into eating yor wife" - Hannibal Lecter
~ Thomas Harris
Salvador [Dali] was brought up in Spain, a country colored by the legends of Hannibal, El Greco, and Cervantes. I was brought up in Ohio, a region steeped in the tradition of Coxey's Army, the Anti-Saloon League, and William Howard Taft.
~ James Thurber
I always liked the stress, the real high-stakes, get-the-orders-out line-cook job, as well as the ordering of the produce and everything - it's really similar to making music for a show like 'Hannibal.' It's like cooking; it's just like owning a restaurant.
~ Brian Reitzell
This ability to feel remorse is one of the many ways in which dogs are better than cats. Cats have the morals of Hannibal Lecter. If you come home and find your cat inside your parakeet's cage, holding your dead parakeet in its jaws, your cat will be like, "Obviously this parakeet committed suicide." Meanwhile your dog, if you have one, will be moping around under the cage going, "I did it! I ate the bird!
~ Dave Barry
The forces of Hannibal, Drake and Napoleon moved at best with the horses' gallop or the speed of wind on sail. Now, aviation brings a new concept of time and distance to the affairs of men. It demands adaptability to change, places a premium on quickness of thought and speed of action.
~ Unknown
L'information est une monnaie très utile. Pour chaque question à laquelle je répondrai au sujet de Brewster, je t'en poserai une en retour. - C'est tellement Hannibal Lecter de ta part.
~ Jenna Black
This acknowledging disposition in the governor made them all acknowledge, that he was truly "a man of an excellent spirit." In fine, the victories of an Alexander, an Hannibal, or a Caesar over other men, were not so glorious as the victories of this great man over himself, which also at last proved victories over other men.
~ Cotton Mather
My favorite movie villain? Oh, that's easy. Hannibal Lecter.
~ Troy Duffy
For Hannibal, it's really about food as art and also, Hannibal's specific brand of art. And I guess I'm a bit of a foodie.
~ Bryan Fuller
In Sallust's view, the moral fibre of Roman culture had been destroyed by the city's success and by the wealth, greed and lust for power that had followed its conquest of the Mediterranean and the crushing of all its serious rivals. The crucial moment came eighty-three years before the war against Catiline, when in 146 BCE Roman armies finally destroyed Carthage, Hannibal's home base on the north coast of Africa.
~ Mary Beard
The Spanish silver mines, for example, once part of Hannibal's domain, were soon producing so much more ore that the environmental pollution from its processing can still be detected in datable samples extracted from deep in the Greenland ice cap.
~ Mary Beard