Top 20 Pestilential Quotes
#1. What but a pestilential vapour can hover over society when its chief director is only instructed in the invention of crimes, or the stupid routine of childish ceremonies?
Mary Wollstonecraft
#2. Rock n' roll is the most disgusting form of expression, it's brutal, malefic, a pestilential aphrodisiac, the preferred music of the delinquents of the earth.
Frank Sinatra
#3. all paperwork is, pardon my language, Ms Li, pestilential putrefaction designed to confound the real work of society in a quagmire of bullshit?
Kate Griffin
#4. To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock
in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock
awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock
from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block.
W.S. Gilbert
#5. No, I can't stop for sonnets; my mother is sitting up. I'll look you up tomorrow, sometime or other, and do for goodness' sake try and realise that you're a pestilential scourge, or your find yourself in a most awful fix. Good-night!
Kenneth Grahame
#6. I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man.
Thomas Jefferson
#7. Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal Lust Is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel; And, like the blast of Pestilential Winds, Taints the sweet bloom of Nature's fairest forms.
John Milton
#8. A monstrous, grisly light poured in on them. - a hideous light - a boiling, pestilential light - a light that would have disfigured hell. The
Douglas Adams
#9. Loyalty it is a pestilential thing in crime. Again and again it obscures the truth.
Agatha Christie
#10. My whole life, I was waiting for someone to save me, and he did. I knew in that moment that I would never be unloved, I would never be abandoned, and I would never be left to fight the monsters alone.
E.K. Blair
#11. On Writing: A multitude of improbabilities can be forgiven as long as enough plausibility has been established.
Danielle Ackley-McPhail
#14. I don't see a big difference between painting and photography. Moreover, such distinctions mean nothing to me.
Sigmar Polke
#15. Never relinquish your terrors. That's when they catch you.
Poppy Z. Brite
#16. And I couldn't help wondering where the hell the fatherland was, what exactly were we fighting for? Did I find out? Ah, that's a good point. It may sound strange, but from talking to the other militiamen I realised it was our childhood memories we were fighting for.
Andres Neuman
#19. [The poet] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who - for whatever reasons - are less conscious of what they are living through. It is as though the risks of the poet's existence can be put to some use beyond her own survival.
Adrienne Rich
#20. I was not so sure but too tired and too relieved to go further that night. To reach one another again had been far enough.
Jeanette Winterson
