"Superman" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... girl to his wife's home and there attempted to seduce her. He knew the proprietor of another, whose cheerful custom it was to go about among his newly-married women-friends and suggest that, inasmuch as he was a "superman," and their husbands were weaklings, they should let him become in secret the father of their children. This amateur eugenist was accustomed to maintain that the great men in history had for the most part ...
— Love's Pilgrimage • Upton Sinclair
... a Superman, with Super powers, and knowing it, is it's so easy to overlook the unpleasant possibility of ...
— The Leader • William Fitzgerald Jenkins (AKA Murray Leinster)
... express what this is? Perhaps it is the German in him. For, in spite of all Nietzsche's Mediterraneanizing of this Superman, Goethe was profoundly and inveterately German. The Rhine-Maidens rocked him in his cradle and, though he might journey to Rome or Troy or Carthage, it was to the Rhine-Maidens that he returned. Yes, ...
— Visions and Revisions - A Book of Literary Devotions • John Cowper Powys
... traveling and revolving cranes capable of handling the heaviest pieces. We climbed to the top and looked down at the vast stretch of hundreds of feet of deck. It was so vast that it seemed rather the work of a superman than of the puny little ...
— The Treasure-Train • Arthur B. Reeve
... be worth waiting for, this superman of yours," laughed the captain. "I most certainly should like ...
— Tarzan of the Apes • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... made the whole universe extraordinarily cold. Up to this I had considered central heating a stuffy subject, and I am yet not fully converted, for though there are those who say it can be controlled quite easily, I have yet to meet the superman who can do it. ...
— Westward with the Prince of Wales • W. Douglas Newton |
