Quote by Leslie Charteris

Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness.

— William Golding

“These were madmen, Simon realized, and that was the direst problem of the world: that madmen should be strong and unafraid, so that they,…

— Tad Williams

“It was mad. It was inconceivable. Anthony began to detect in himself the symptoms of a disease he had sworn never to acquire--lovesickness--and thus…

— Dominique Frost

“Despite their common reputation as agents of God's will, forces of good, and the gold standard for morality, all the angels Dean had met…

— Rebecca Dessertine

“he conned his way past Saint Peter at the pearly gates, then the angels best lock down those streets of gold.”

— Carolyn Brown

“I think you were going to stop the Black Plague armed with one guard, one mad scientist, a rubber man, and a synthetic rat.”

— Caspar Vega

“The disease which racked his body was a sweetheart compared to the more obscure one that possessed his sick mind.”

— Irvine Welsh

“Even the king's Erkynguard might have wished to be elsewhere, rather than here on this killing ground where duty brought them and loyalty prisoned…

— Tad Williams

“These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent, yet so vicious and base?…

— Mary Shelley

“here is the stout Baron Reginald Front-de-Boeuf, whose utter abomination is a Jew; and the good Knight Templar, Brian de Bois-Guilbert, whose trade is to slay…

— Walter Scott

“Priests of a thousand cults proclaim the essential goodliness of Man. They must be fools. All I see is people flinging themselves at the…

— Glen Cook - Dread Brass Shadows

“It was too much for him, the knowledge that all of this had happened before. That he was the scion of a people abused;…

— N.K. Jemisin