Fierce

Famous quotes containing the word fierce:

    “At night the passion came,
    Like the fierce fiend of a distempered dream,
    And shook him from his rest, and led him forth
    Into the darkness.—”
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    “What rein can hold licentious wickedness
    When down the hill he holds his fierce career?”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “White ... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black.... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.”
    —Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)