Hannibal quotes:

Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself.

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.

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

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

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

I will find a way -- or make one.

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

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

Dogs keep a promise a person can't.

If we cannot find a way, we will make one.

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

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

Nothing more isolating than a mental illness.

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

We will find a way or we shall make one

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

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

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.

All good things to those who wait.

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

Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me,

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

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

I was curious what would happen,

If you pay peanuts, you wind up hiring monkeys.

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?

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

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

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

We're like socks. You can put us through a rough wash once, but you'll never use us again.

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

You put the life in your belly and you live.

You want the scent? Smell yourself!

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

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

I will either find a way or make one.

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