Violent

Famous quotes containing the word violent:

“These violent delights have violent ends,
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)

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