Quote#Art
The bloody wolf, the wolf does not pursue
Quote byAnne Killigrew · 1660–1685
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Poems (1686), "The Miseries of Man".
English (original)
The bloody wolf, the wolf does not pursue; The boar, though fierce, his tusk will not embrue In his own kind, Bears, not on bears do prey: Then art thou, man, more savage far than they.
— Anne Killigrew
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