Cloven Quotes

#1. The only way of really finding out a man's true character is to play golf with him. In no other walk of life does the cloven hoof so quickly display itself.

P.G. Wodehouse

#2. The cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath the robe of public principle.

John Galt

#3. But now, you are twain, you are cloven apart
Flesh of his flesh, but heart of my heart.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

#4. The truth is not beautiful - it stands on cloven hooves - it is covered in coagulated blood - but it is the truth.

Mark Mirabello

#5. It's true. Goodfellow is monogamous. he's become a freak. A pervert. Depravity on the cloven hoof."
"Or his balls fell off," suggested another puck who came to the bar. "Or his dick. Anyone who would hang out with Bacchus is bound to get a catastrophic genital rotting illness at some point.

Rob Thurman

#6. It is no use telling me there are bad aunts and good aunts. At the core, they are all alike. Sooner or later, out pops the cloven hoof.

P.G. Wodehouse

#7. They took council. On that raw tablestone the flames of their balefire swirled and circled and they studied the arrant blackness under them where it fell away like the sheer cloven face of the world.

Cormac McCarthy

#8. Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus.

Elizabeth I

#9. Mind is locked in matter like the spirit Ariel in a cloven pine. Like Ariel, men struggle to escape the drag of the matter they inhabit, yet it is the spirit that they fear.

Loren Eiseley

#10. So what did you think the devil would look like? If he were red with a tail, horns, and cloven hooves, any fool could say no.

Thomas C. Foster

#11. An image flashed across her mind of two rams flinging their heads against each other on a rocky mountainside. What did the girl rams do? Faint with pleasure? Clap their cloven hooves? Lean against some nearby boulders, with little tubs of mountain grass, discussing the battle?

Edward St. Aubyn

#12. The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.

Anthony Trollope

#13. An unedified palate is the irrepressible cloven foot of the upstart. The

Thomas Hardy

#14. We spoke of religion, and how much of it is just a custom preserving practical codes of health, morality and justice that are no longer necessary for group survival (like not eating animals with cloven hooves).

Marilyn Manson

#15. She did not look anything like a horned horse, as unicorns are often pictured, being smaller and cloven-hoofed, and possessing that oldest, wildest grace that horses have never had, that deer have only in a shy, thin imitation and goats in dancing mockery.

Peter S. Beagle

#16. Upon the delicate chin you turned
Venus had set her cloven sign.
Like embers seen through darkest wine
Your unextinguished tresses burned.

Clark Ashton Smith

#17. For, as when the red-cheeked, dancing girls, April and May, trip home to the wintry, misanthropic woods; even the barest, ruggedest, most thunder-cloven old oak will at least send forth some few green sprouts to welcome such glad-hearted visitants.

Herman Melville

#18. She chose the attractive room, not noticing the cloven hoof exposed beneath the ornate curtains. That decision has surely haunted her every day since, finally catching up to her.

K. Martin Beckner

#19. When evil enters the world, do you think it comes with horns and cloven feet, billowing some foul stench?

Zia Haider Rahman

#20. The child is born speaking the languages of birds; the child has horns and scales and wings; it has a beak; it has a cloven hoof. He is the sum of all creatures: the ones that swim, the ones that soar, the ones that leap, the ones that maze the earth with burrows.

Rikki Ducornet

#21. The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger. Before long the world will be cloven with a war between the telescopists and the microscopists. The first study large things and live in a small world; the second study small things and live in a large world.

G.K. Chesterton

#22. who might have been a preacher had she not been cloven

Sebastian Barry

#23. All around Molly there flowed and flowered a light as impossible as snow set afire, while thousands of cloven hooves sang by like cymbals. She stood very still, neither weeping nor laughing, for her joy was too great for her body to understand.

Peter S. Beagle

#24. It hinges on oil. Europeans feel they handled the boycott after the Yom Kippur War [1973] very badly. The Arabs need to sell oil; otherwise they cannot live.

Manfred Gerstenfeld

#25. Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh And sees fast-by a butcher with an axe, But will suspect 'twas he that made the slaughter?

William Shakespeare

#26. I could rent Caesar out at birthday parties. Halloween parties. I could take pictures of Caesar eating a piece of birthday cake. Or a picture of a kid riding Caesar on his birthday. We could build a saddle.

Pat Conroy

#27. What miracle is God fashioning out of this misfortune?

Robert G. Allen

#28. The secret to a happy marriage? Do whatever your wife tells you. 'Yes, dear.' And breathe.

Denzel Washington

#29. The truth won't set us free - until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it.

Margaret Heffernan

#30. You can tell me. I have a phone and am capable of operating it.

Cora Reilly

#31. If you start from a belief that the most knowledgeable person on earth does not have even one percent of the total knowledge on earth, that shoots down social engineering, economic central planning, judicial activism and innumerable other ambitious notions favored by the political left.

Thomas Sowell