Judaism Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

“Germans at the time believed, a little oddly, that dyes killed germs by turning the germs’ vital organs the wrong color.”

— Sam Kean

“The candle’s flame washed her in a sensual bath of pulsating light, and Hans became entranced by the soft glow upon her skin.”

— Nicki Elson

The English think soap is civilization.

— Heinrich von Treitschke

“The old women were gone. They seemed to have ascended into the darkness like the waxy smoke from the candles after he capped them…

— Pete Hamill

“[Describing the soap in the gulag] It smelt as if some sacred physical law had been demeaned in its creation.”

— Martin Amis

“Yet, when struck at a particular angle by a flicker of candlelight from the chandelier, its heart of wine-drenched velvet shone through.”

— Tom Robbins

“The house filled rapidly; cheerful talk overflowed the rooms and children were bobbing in and out everywhere with their shining new toys, until finally,…

— Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

“His neighbours said that if Berl Landfahrer started dealing in candles the sun would stop setting, and that if it rained ducats he would…

— Leo Perutz

“Becoming acquainted and swallowing fears and settling down to life in the little cabin with its warm glow of woodstove and kerosene lamp and…

— Jack Kerouac

“Felix Mersey might be the cream of the aristocracy, but in the boiler room Soap was undisputed king—grimy empire though it might be.”

— Gail Carriger

“You can have the most advanced and efflorescent cultures. Get your politics wrong, however, and everything stands to be swept away. This is not…

— Charles Krauthammer

The English were notoriously unenthusiastic about burning witches. I suppose ours were too soggy.

— Terry Pratchett