Top 32 The Cloven Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. The cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath the robe of public principle.
John Galt
#5. 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
#6. The outfit, tight in places,
and loose in some, says as much
in the buttons as it does in cuffs.
Kristen Henderson
#8. 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
#9. The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
Anthony Trollope
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus.
Elizabeth I
#14. 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
#16. A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except to be able to grow in rows
Doug Larson
#17. I've never seen anyone so prone to life-threatening idiocy.
Stephenie Meyer
#18. The truth is not beautiful - it stands on cloven hooves - it is covered in coagulated blood - but it is the truth.
Mark Mirabello
#19. An unedified palate is the irrepressible cloven foot of the upstart. The
Thomas Hardy
#20. who might have been a preacher had she not been cloven
Sebastian Barry
#21. Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But don't ask them to achieve self-respect. They will hate your soul.
Ayn Rand
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. When evil enters the world, do you think it comes with horns and cloven feet, billowing some foul stench?
Zia Haider Rahman
#25. With the magnificence of eternity before us, let time, with all its fluctuations, dwindle into its own littleness.
Thomas Chalmers
#26. Friendship is when you are yourself and not someone your not
Jasmine Lozano
#27. 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
#28. Never believe a man who says God no longer does miracles, Ben. But never believe a man who says God must do a miracle the way a man wants him to. God is God.
Randy Alcorn
#29. 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
#30. My personality has two sides: a very social side and a reclusive side. I love writing fiction, although I can't imagine ever being locked up in a room writing all the time.
John Searles
#31. 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
#32. 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
