Brimstone Head Folk

Famous quotes containing the words brimstone, head and/or folk:

    “To awake your dormouse valor, to put fire in your heart, and brimstone in your liver.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “... but by that time a lot of sea had rolled by and Lucette was too tired to wait. Then the night was filled with the rattle of an old but still strong helicopter. Its diligent beam could spot only the dark head of Van, who, having been propelled out of the boat when it shied from its own sudden shadow, kept bobbing and bawling the drowned girl’s name in the black, foam-veined, complicated waters.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    “An’ when the earth’s as cauld’s the mune
    An’ a’ its folk are lang syne deid,
    On coontless stars the Babe maun cry
    An’ the Crucified maun bleed.”
    —Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978)