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)

    “Thus Satan talking to his neerest Mate
    With Head up-lift above the wave, and Eyes
    That sparkling blaz’d, his other Parts besides
    Prone on the Flood, extended long and large
    Lay floating many a rood, in bulk as huge
    As whom the Fables name of monstrous size,
    Titanian, or Earth-born, that warr’d on Jove,
    Briarios or Typhon, whom the Den
    By ancient Tarsus held, or that Sea-beast
    Leviathan,”
    —John Milton (1608–1674)

    “The ties between gentle folk are as pure as water; the links between scoundrels are as thick as honey.”
    —Chinese proverb.