Bend Sinister

Famous quotes containing the words bend and/or sinister:

    “My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are.”
    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    “Calm fell. From Heaven distilled a clemency;
    There was peace on earth, and silence in the sky;
    Some could, some could not, shake off misery:
    The Sinister Spirit sneered: ‘It had to be!’
    And again the Spirit of Pity whispered, ‘Why?’”
    —Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)