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- See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger,… — 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… — William James
- It should be forbidden and severely punished to remove cancer by cutting, burning, cautery, and other fiendish tortures. It is from nature… — Paracelsus
- Big dreams are risky business. The psyche can be fiendish, puckish, exalted, imperious, tender, sardonic, faithful, pestilential--whatever rivets our attention upon the… — 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… — Christopher Isherwood
- To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic… — Matt Taibbi
- Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly… — 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… — Edward Augustus Bowles
- Think of what big governments have gotten up to in this century : not one, but two world wars, the gulag, the… — 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… — Erich Fromm