“Ahab is Ahab”
“Thou hast but enraged, not insulted me, sir; but for that I ask thee not to beware of Starbuck; thou wouldst but laugh; but let Ahab beware of Ahab; beware of thyself, old man.”
“To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous.”
“Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last”
“Ahab is for ever Ahab, man. This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled. Fool! I am the Fates' lieutenant, I act under orders.”
“Captain Ahab drowned, he reminded himself; it was the trimmer, Ishmael, who survived.”