Fiendish Quotes

19 quotes by 19 authors

See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger, touching the sore… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about. — Louis Kronenberger
No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely… — William James
It should be forbidden and severely punished to remove cancer by cutting, burning, cautery, and other fiendish tortures. It is from nature that the disease… — Paracelsus
Big dreams are risky business. The psyche can be fiendish, puckish, exalted, imperious, tender, sardonic, faithful, pestilential--whatever rivets our attention upon the task of psychic… — Marc Ian Barasch
I often feel that worse than the most fiendish Nazis were those Germans who went along with the persecution of the Jews not because they… — Christopher Isherwood
To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic sort of plight… — Matt Taibbi
Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the… — Carl Clinton Van Doren
Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer-so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible. — Tom Bissell
... the most fiendish plant I know of, the sort of thing Beelzebub might pluck to make a bouquet for his mother-in-law ... it looks… — Edward Augustus Bowles
Think of what big governments have gotten up to in this century : not one, but two world wars, the gulag, the holocaust, aerial bombing… — P.J. O'Rourke
Another nation is made out to be utterly depraved and fiendish, while one's own nation stands for everything that is good and noble. Every action… — Erich Fromm
What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid… — John Updike
When I finally went to school I had to adjust to other girls and learn their fiendish ways. Having learnt them, I turned them on… — Margaret Atwood
Look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see real stupidity. It is a kind of bottomless stupidity, a fiendish stupidity. They are… — Werner Herzog
Lawyers make nothing but confusion...A lawyer is an instrument of the devil. In general, he's a fiendish idiot, banking on the stupidity of people much… — Thomas Bernhard
The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my… — Edgar Allan Poe
Can anyone picture God telling, taking, or enjoying a good joke? The idea is laughable. The Devil, on the other hand, laughs with demonic mirth,… — Diane LaVey
Protect your good image from the eyes of negative viewers, who may look at your good appearance with an ugly fiendish eye, and ruin your… — Michael Bassey Johnson

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