Famous quotes containing the word violent:
“... children
With their shallow violent eyes.”
—Philip Larkin (19221986)
“Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicidethat is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its lifeare alike forbidden.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (18091894)
“The Peoples violent Love and Hate;
One in extreames lovd and abhord.
Riddles lie here; or in a word,
Here lies Blood; and let it lie
Speechlesse still, and never crie.”
—John Cleveland (16131658)
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