Smiting Quotes

9 quotes by 9 authors

• We are being at once wisely aware of our own frivolity if we avoid hitting and whacking and prefer 'striking' and 'smiting'; talk and chat… — J.R.R. Tolkien
• We see his smile of love even when others see nothing but the black hand of death smiting our best beloved. — Charles Spurgeon
• Passover is my idea of a perfect holiday. Dear God, when you're handing out plagues of darkness, locusts, hail, boils, flies, lice, frogs, and cattle… — P.J. O'Rourke
• A great nation is not saved by wars, it is saved by acts without external picturesqueness; by speaking, writing, voting reasonably; by smiting corruption swiftly;… — William James
• In one was, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often… — Christopher Hitchens
• Belief sloshes around in the firmament like lumps of clay spiralling into a potter's wheel. That's how gods get created, for example. They clearly must… — Terry Pratchett
• That's how it will be, except that in reality, both today and later, one will stand there with a palpable body and a real head,… — Franz Kafka
• Keep out of this," Lucian said. "I'm not smiting anybody." "You're showing mercy." Catch-a-Tick nodded. "That's heroic, too. But not as good as smiting. — Lloyd Alexander
• The Spartan, smiting and spurning the wretched Helot, moves our disgust. But the same Spartan, calmly dressing his hair, and uttering his concise jests, on… — Thomas B. Macaulay

Who Wrote These Smiting Quotes

9 authors contributed a total of 9 Smiting Quotes as follows:

• 1 Smiting Quote by Charles Spurgeon
• 1 Smiting Quote by P.J. O'Rourke
• 1 Smiting Quote by William James
• 1 Smiting Quote by Christopher Hitchens
• 1 Smiting Quote by Terry Pratchett
• 1 Smiting Quote by Franz Kafka
• 1 Smiting Quote by Lloyd Alexander
• 1 Smiting Quote by Thomas B. Macaulay
• 1 Smiting Quote by J.R.R. Tolkien