Infernal Quotes

51 quotes by 47 authors

Forget the threat of Hell's infernal flames. The true torture would condemn a man to wait and wait and wait - for an eternity — Sharon Kay Penman
Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He… — Willa Cather
If you are chosen town clerk, forsooth, you cannot go to Tierra del Fuego this summer; but you may go to the land of infernal… — Henry David Thoreau
Is manâ€™s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever? — Thomas Carlyle
A background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man. — Thomas Carlyle
O happy dogs of England, Bark well at errand boys, If you lived anywhere else, You would not be allowed to make such an infernal… — Stevie Smith
I've said it before: equations are the devil's sentences. The worst one is that quadratic equation, an infernal salad of numbers, letters, and symbols. — Stephen Colbert
I am sorry the infernal Divinities, who visit mankind with diseases, and are therefore at perpetual war with Doctors, should have prevented my seeing all… — Erasmus Darwin
The great fear that hung over the business community in the 1970s was death by regulation, and the great goal of the conservative movement, as… — Thomas Frank
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me. — George Bernard Shaw
In almost every interview someone asks what does HIM stand for. I can't even remember our latest lie about that. When Hanson was hot, we… — Ville Valo
Daily life is better when it involves interactions with real people who have a personal investment in their labour, like shopkeepers, than it is with… — Julian Baggini
I am alone on this road strewn with bones and bordered by ruins! Angels have their brothers, and demons have their infernal companions. Yet I… — Gustave Flaubert
Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick? — Markus Zusak
Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not… — Paul Valery
People keep themselves at a tolerable height above an infernal abyss toward which they gravitate only by putting out all their strength and lovingly helping… — Franz Kafka
Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful streams;/Abhorred Styx the flood of deadly hate,/Sad Acheron of sorrow, black and deep;/Cocytus,… — John Milton
We can say without exaggeration that the present national ambition of the United States is unemployment. People live for quitting time, for weekends, for vacations,… — Wendell Berry
Occasionally, there are battles in the sky. One likes to imagine the angels are always triumphant. One does not like to think of the ancient… — Holly Black
Warlock,â€ he said. â€œI know who you are.â€ Magnus raised his eyebrows. â€œYou do?â€ â€œMagnus Bane. Destroyer of the demon Marabas. Son ofâ€”â€ â€œNow,â€ said… — Cassandra Clare

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