Mordant Quotes

#1. The Sarajevans have a very particular world view - a mordant wit coupled with this unbearable sadness and ... truckloads of guts, you know.

Geraldine Brooks

#2. I have never injured anybody with a mordant poem; my
verse contains charges against nobody. Ingenuous, I have
shunned wit steeped in venom
not a letter of mine is dipped
in poisonous jest.

Ovid

#3. -the wind called a mordant note through the sickly trees while other less explicable sounds scraped up the beach-head toward him-waiting for the unknown wickedness to arrive.

Nick Cutter

#4. Gonzo ... acidic hilarity ... 'The Fun Parts' has fine moments, but it's not the whole Lipsyte story. Read it with 'The Ask' if you really want to know how a mordant jokester with a madman's imagination became a literary rock star.

Janet Maslin

#5. Practical application is the only mordant which will set things in the memory. Study without it is gymnastics, and not work, which alone will get intellectual bread.

James Russell Lowell

#6. Men grow cold as girls grow old
And we all lose our charms in the end.
How prettily Lorelei Lee sang these mordant lyrics!

Joyce Carol Oates

#7. We've seen firsthand the footprints of the Mordant's treachery.

Karen Azinger

#8. Rob Chilson's mordant wit will keep you turning the pages until the wee hours!

Algis Budrys

#9. The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

James Russell Lowell

#10. Be on your guard, so that your minds are not dulled ... or that day will come on you unexpectedly. Luke 21:34

Beth Moore

#11. He was religious, but had refrained from allowing his religious ideals to be obscured by a god.

Henning Mankell

#12. Remembrance. Even more, confession. It did always made the heavy things come loose.

Erika Robuck

#13. When you think of someone with love, your heart dances with joy.

Debasish Mridha

#14. I spent too long in the shadows ... I'm looking forward to being in the light with you.

Sylvain Reynard

#15. Just because a love ends doesn't mean it wasn't real.

Krystal Sutherland

#16. One can have no more mastery over the environment, than one has over himself.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#17. This doesn't seem like one of those 'truth will set you free' situations.

Paulo Costanzo

#18. Unicorns," I said. "Very dangerous. You go first.

Jim Butcher

#19. Fish that boast in a pond should not boast in the ocean.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#20. When multiple explanations exist, the simplest is usually correct.

Dan Brown

#21. We sweat for our pretensions. It

David Sedaris

#22. My dad was the biggest influence on my life because he was never boring.

Christian Bale

#23. Little things affect little minds.

Benjamin Disraeli

#24. Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

Walt Whitman