Violent

Famous quotes containing the word violent:

“... children
With their shallow violent eyes.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“Material advancement has its share in moral and intellectual progress. Becky Sharp’s acute remark that it is not difficult to be virtuous on ten thousand a year has its applications to nations; and it is futile to expect a hungry and squalid population to be anything but violent and gross.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

“Mosquitoes, black flies, etc., pursued us in mid-channel, and we were glad sometimes to get into violent rapids, for then we escaped them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)