Herod's Quotes

#1. In better times, we're celebrate Christmas Eve by attending the nativity play at the Catholic church down the road, watching Joseph and Mary and Baby Jesus try to escape from Herod's soldiers and their wooden swords and AK-47s (it wasn't the most accurate version, but it was funny.)

William Kamkwamba

#2. It has never been recommended to confuse "loving" with "seeking to please" ... Salome pleased Herod's guests; I can hardly believe she was burning with love for them. As for poor John the Baptist ... she certainly did not envelop him in her love.

Jacques Maritain

#3. Unconfusion submits
its confusion to proof; it's
not a Herod's oath that cannot change.

Marianne Moore

#4. truly believe this child to be the new king. A furious Herod summons his religious advisers. As a secular

Bill O'Reilly

#5. that's like Herod calling Thatcher a bit insensitive

David Mitchell

#6. Now Herod was an active man, and soon found proper materials for his active spirit to work upon.

Flavius Josephus

#7. I feel at times that I'm making up these little people and I've lost my mind.

Carolyn Chute

#8. How can the Jews be blamed for rejecting what was never offered?

John Hagee

#9. ALEXAS
Gracious Queen, even Herod of Judea wouldn't dare look at you unless you were in a good mood.

William Shakespeare

#10. I did my share of kid acting, like lots of us do. I even played King Herod when I was 6, but when I got to the end of my school period, that was it.

Theo James

#11. Somehow, it bothered her watching Garth's charm directed so effectively at another. Could he convince her so easily of an untruth?

Colleen Chen

#12. Know what you're trying to do before you do it. Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing paint at a wall blindfolded will let you paint a nice picture.

Steve Albini

#13. Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards.

Aeschines

#14. Ray Jennings was to orthodoxy what King Herod was to child-minding.

Michael Atherton

#15. In recognition of his service, Rome named Herod "King of the Jews", granting him a kingdom that would ultimately grow larger than that of King Solomon

Reza Aslan

#16. It's easy to shake our heads in disgust at Pharaoh or Herod or Planned Parenthood.

Russell D. Moore

#17. MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines, who believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done by talking. Herod of Judea, all the famous soldiers have been practical exponents of the Malthusian idea.

Ambrose Bierce

#18. But this post-college world felt different from everything that had come before it; art was still central, but now everyone had to think about making a living too, and they did so with a kind of scorn for money except as it allowed them to live the way they wanted to live.

Meg Wolitzer

#19. God did not choose Herod or Pontius Pilate or Caesar Augustus as His instrument. He chose the unknown son of an unknown carpenter in one of the least important stretches of the Roman Empire.

Dan Simmons

#20. Neither at things, nor at people should one look. Only in mirrors should one look, for mirrors do but show us masks.

Oscar Wilde

#21. Life is tough enough without having someone kick you from the inside.

Rita Rudner

#22. As a bookish child, I would come to see the one-child policy as one of the most fascinating and bizarre things about the land of my ancestors, equal parts Aldous Huxley and King Herod.

Mei Fong

#23. There are many ways to fail. Some reject success. And others do not recognize it when success comes.

Gene Tierney

#24. I'm not interested in what you know," said Herod. "I'm interested in watching you scream."
"Then you're going to be disappointed." "We'll see," said Herod with a smile.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#25. Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.

Noel Coward

#26. New Jersey gives us glue.

Howard Dietz

#27. A Strange Eastern Light "During the time of King Herod, Wise Men from the east came and asked, 'Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.'" - Matthew 2:1

Seth Grahame-Smith

#28. I must be irresistible. You can't stay away from me for more than twenty-four hours.

Catherine Doyle

#29. Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft

George Bernard Shaw

#30. Just then the kid upset the milk over Freddie's trousers, and when he had come back after changing his clothes he began to talk about what a much-maligned man King Herod was.

P.G. Wodehouse

#31. Ridcully was to management what King Herod was to the Bethlehem Playgroup Association.

Terry Pratchett

#32. For our law has in it a turn of humour or touch of fancy which Nero and Herod never happened to think of; that of actually punishing homeless people for not sleeping at home.

G.K. Chesterton

#33. So tired of Noam and Herod and Sir and Angra and all these arrogant, puppet-master men who hold all the strings and refuse to give them up.

Sara Raasch

#34. Herod was convert,after all. His mother was Arab. His people, the Idumeans, had come to Judaism only a generation or two earlier.

Reza Aslan