Devoured Quotes

85 quotes by 77 authors

What's difficult to understand about German opera? It's always the same. Boy meets girl, boy falls in love, girl gets devoured by horrible winged creature… — Susan Wiggs
Though he had very little Latin beyond "Cave canem," he had, as a young dog, devoured Shakespeare (in a tasty leather binding). — Dodie Smith
Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust. Envy of others comes from comparing… — Diogenes
It is as if a wolf devoured a sheep and the sheep were so powerful that it transformed the wolf and turned him into a… — Martin Luther
It is better to be devoured by lions than to be eaten by dogs. Explaining why his Northwestern teams played difficult schedules. — Alex Agase
I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all. I scribbled all my opinions on the margins of… — Winston Churchill
My view is that to get anywhere in life you have to be anti-social, otherwise you'll end up being devoured. I've never been particularly social,… — Sean Connery
To the children who loved Harry Potter, I want to say your enthusiasm was the real magic. I so enjoyed being on the journey with… — Daniel Radcliffe
To trap one's self-suffering is to risk being devoured from the inside. — Frida Kahlo
There is no reader so parochial as the one who reads none but this morning's books. Books are not rolls, to be devoured only when… — Clifton Fadiman
These political passions are born of a hunger so deep that it touches on the spiritual. Or they were for me, and they still are.… — Lierre Keith
Snoop is a tour de force! Itâ€™s one of the smartest and most original books Iâ€™ve come across in a long time. I devoured it… — Richard Florida
Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made… — Miguel de Cervantes
The dictator, in all his pride, is held in the grip of his party machine. He can go forward; he cannot go back. He must… — Winston Churchill
They gutted the book, making an action movie for 15-25 year olds. Tolkien became...devoured by his popularity and absorbed by the absurdity of the time.… — Christopher Tolkien
In most cases, when the lion, weary of obeying its master, has torn and devoured him, its nerves are pacified and it looks round for… — Paul Valery
When I was a kid, I just devoured TV 24 hours a day. Now that it's actually available 24 hours a day, I'm usually busy… — Luke Perry
Anything made out of destructible matter Infinite time would have devoured before. But if the atoms that make and replenish the world Have endured through… — Lucretius
Crowds are somewhat like the sphinx of ancient fable: It is necessary to arrive at a solution of the problems offered by their psychology or… — Gustave Le Bon
It is often said that all the conditions for the first production of a living organism are now present, which could have ever been present.… — Charles Darwin

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