Menacing Quotes
45 Menacing quotes by 42 unique authors
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Whether we like it or not, a breakdown in home-life will eventually lead to a breakdown everywhere. This is, surely, the most menacing and dangerous…
— Martyn
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Science boasts of the distance of its stars; of the terrific remoteness of the things of which it has to speak. But poetry and religion…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
— Aleister Crowley
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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an…
— H. L. Mencken
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September 11 We thought we'd outdistanced history Told our children it was nowhere near; Even when history struck Columbine, It didn't happen here. We took…
— Richard Peck
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The magician stood erect, menacing the attackers with demons, metamorphoses, paralyzing ailments, and secret judo holds. Molly picked up a rock.
— Peter S. Beagle
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Firepaw held the menacing amber gaze for few moments. Warrior and apprentice, for a heartbeat their eyes were locked as enemies.
— Erin Hunter
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Menacing lines of black tomorrows on the horizon.
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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Want any of this stuff? Jordan?... Nick?" I didn't answer. Nick?" he asked again. What?" Want any?" No... I just remembered that today's my birthday."…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Trevor was as menacing as he was gorgeous. If he were a vampire, he'd be the dark kind, the kind that sneaks up on innocent…
— Ellen Schreiber
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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
— Truman Capote
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Oh noes, kitteh haz major angriez!” I said. I turned around to share a laugh with my companions and found them glaring at me. “What?”…
— Kevin Hearne
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The emotions between the races could never be pure; even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was…
— Barack Obama
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I've never had anyone say they love me before. Libby lobes me, that is true, but there is something a bit menacing about the way…
— Louise Rennison
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I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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That was the first time I ever saw him smile. It transformed him from someone menacing to someone you wished you knew.
— Suzanne Collins
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I think there is sort of a general universal perception of me, or someone who looks like me, as someone who is kind of menacing,…
— Steven Bauer
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While we were at work there came nine or 10 of the natives to a small hill a little way from us, and stood there…
— William Dampier
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With the draft, everybody was involved. Everybody was fodder. When you got to be 21, 22 and graduated from college, for two years your life…
— Philip Roth
Who Wrote These Menacing Quotes
42 authors contributed a total of 45 Menacing Quotes, led by these top contributors: