Quotes with fiend

  • My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt; helpless, naked, piping loud, like a fiend hid in a cloud.

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  • George Bernard Shaw I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Henry Miller Man torturing man is a fiend beyond description. You turn a corner in the dark and there he is. You congeal into a bundle of inanimate fear. You become the very soul of anesthesia. But there is no escaping him. It is your turn now...
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • William Blake My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt; helpless, naked, piping loud, like a fiend hid in a cloud.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Erich Fromm The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Robertson Davies To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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