Amused Quote by Saint Augustine

“The honky-tonk bartender, who doubled as bouncer, waiter, and cashier, was in no mood to compromise. Mercy was not in him. He came out…

— Cornell Woolrich

Two devils rose from the water, and flew off through the air, crying, 'Oh, oh, oh!' and turning one over another, in sportive mockery.

— Martin Luther

“There arose a wild, impetuous, precipitate, mad inexorable, furious, dark, lacerating, merciless, combative, contentious badb, which was shrieking and fluttering over their heads. And…

— Katharine Mary Briggs

They went inside. The young ones shuffled to a stop as their ironic sensibilities, which served them in lieu of souls, were jammed by…

— Neal Stephenson

Then might ye see Cowls, hoods, and habits with their wearers tost And flutter'd into rags; then reliques, beads, Indulgences, dispenses, pardons, bulls, The…

— John Milton

They were devils incarnate.

— William Shakespeare

Their imaginations were flywheels on the ramshackle machinery of the awful truth.

— Anonymous

By the time we hit the streets they were silent and closed in on us, and they had assumed the Nonchalant Look, an expression…

— Susanna Kaysen

They seemed to have taken all of their smoothly cultivated ignorance, their exquisitely learned self-hatred, their elaborately designed hopelessness and sucked it all up…

— Toni Morrison

I could not help feeling that they were evil things-- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss. That…

— Anonymous

“dashed across streets without looking, they got horsing around in the lake and suddenly realized they had floated far past their depth on their…

— Stephen King

“They crossed before the sun and vanished one by one and reappeared again and they were black in the sun and they rode out…

— Cormac McCarthy