Sinister House

Famous quotes containing the words sinister and/or house:

    “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)

    “In my grandmother’s house there was always chicken soup
    And talk of the old country—mud and boards,
    Poverty,
    The snow falling down and necks of lovers.”
    —Louis Simpson (b. 1923)