Famous quotes containing the words tear, gas and/or grenade:
“I am the sanest man who ever lived. But I will not be tortured. I tear torture out of myself by torturing you.”
—David Boehm, and Louis Friedlander. Dr. Richard Vollin (Bela Lugosi)
“one pale woman all alone,
The daylight kissing her wan hair,
Loitered beneath the gas lamps’ flare,
With lips of flame and heart of stone.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“Suddenly he found he had pressed the spring of the grenade. He struggled to pull it out of his pocket. It stuck in the narrow pocket. His arm and his cold fingers that clutched the grenade seemed paralyzed. Then a warm joy went through him. He had thrown it.
Anderson was standing up, swaying backwards and forwards. The explosion made the woods quake.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)