Violent

Famous quotes containing the word violent:

    The People’s violent Love and Hate;
    One in extreames lov’d and abhor’d.
    Riddles lie here; or in a word,
    Here lies Blood; and let it lie
    Speechlesse still, and never crie.
    John Cleveland (1613–1658)

    There may be in the cup
    A spider steeped, and one may drink, depart,
    And yet partake no venom, for his knowledge
    Is not infected; but if one present
    Th’abhorred ingredient to his eye, make known
    How he hath drunk, he cracks his gorge, his sides,
    With violent hefts. I have drunk, and seen the spider.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide—that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life—are alike forbidden.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)