Slain Quotes

106 Slain quotes by 87 unique authors

With that truncheon thou hast slain a good knight, and now it sticketh in thy body. — Thomas Malory
A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of… — Joseph Campbell
Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth.... [W]hat… — William Shakespeare
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain. — Bertolt Brecht
Morality, thou deadly bane, Thy tens o' thousands thou hast slain! Vain is his hope, whose stay an' trust is In moral mercy, truth, and… — Robert Burns
Venice is the worlds unconscious: a misers glittering hoard, guarded by a Beast whose eyes are made of white agate, and by a saint who… — Mary McCarthy
It is not right to exult over slain men. — Homer
The glory that was Lincoln's never died when he was slain. — Phil Ochs
Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain! — Robert Burns
Late one afternoon when returning from town we were met by a few women and children who told us that Mexican troops from some other… — Geronimo
They must be slain by the Law before they can be made alive by the gospel. — Charles Spurgeon
Christianity as a specific doctrine was slain with Jesus, suddenly and utterly. He was hardly cold in his grave, or high in his heaven (as… — George Bernard Shaw
England has to fulfill a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating - the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and the laying the… — Karl Marx
If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain! — Marie de France
See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy: for it is… — Samuel Rutherford
He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again. — Tacitus
War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and… — Rudyard Kipling
That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found… — Khaled Hosseini
The Ogre does what ogres can, Deeds quite impossible for Man, But one prize is beyond his reach: The Ogre cannot master speech. About a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! He chortled in his joy. — Lewis Carroll

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