Crosses Quote by Malcolm Lowry

“But there was no mistaking, even in the uncertain light, the hand, half crabbed, half generous, and wholly drunken, of the Consul himself, the…

— Malcolm Lowry

“There is a story that Simonides was dining at the house of a wealthy nobleman named Scopas at Crannon in Thessaly, and chanted a…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Once, in Thessaly, there was a poet called Simonides. He was commissioned to appear at a banquet, given by a man called Scopas, and…

— Hilary Mantel

“If in our day there are so many men that pass before the Cross wagging their head, who gaze at our altars with a…

— Emile Bougaud

“the people were steeped in the crepuscular gloom of antiquity; and were wise with all manner of accumulated lore; and were subtle in the…

— Clark Ashton Smith

The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one.

— Thomas Carlyle

“Far back in the mists of ancient time, in the great and glorious days of the former Galactic Empire, life was wild, rich and…

— Douglas Adams

“Crouched on the altar-steps, a grisly band Of women slumbers—not like women they, But Gorgons rather; nay, that word is weak, Nor may I…

— Aeschylus

“[Eugenides] looked from Eddis to the window, where the visible sky was already dark. He looked back, his gaze a little sharper, and said,…

— Megan Whalen Turner

“We would either have a silent, a soft, a perfumed cross, sugared and honeyed with the consolations of Christ, or we faint; and providence…

— Samuel Rutherford

“All crosses had their tops cut and became T's. There was also a thing called God.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the gate: ‘To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can…

— Thomas Babington Macaulay