Quotes About Ferocity

The sensuality, delicacy of literature does not exist for me; only the passion, energy and struggle… Most of my friends deplore this: they are always telling me what I should leave out in order to have success. But I know that nothing has more success in the end than an intelligent ferocity.

Carpathian men are vain, dear brother-in-law," she proclaimed, "but not too bright." Jacques glared up at her with mock ferocity. "You have a mean streak in you, woman. Whatever happened to a soft, sweet, Yes, my lord, you're always right? " "Try the Dark Ages. Your age is showing.

It combined corrupt simplicity with delicate ferocity, a curious variety of civilization; a tiger with a simper.

Powell proposed waging this war on four fronts—in academia, the media, politics, and the legal system—and doing so with unheard-of budgets and ferocity.

A bitter hatred was lifting his lip from his teeth.

She wore her ferocity like armor, and it was purely asexual armor. Liraz was untouchable and untouched.

My life is blood because my world is beasts.

She was fierce, ready to scold, but when she saw him, really saw him, she faltered. Her expression warred with itself - ferocity with awe - and awe won out. She cast a sidelong glance at Karou and said, in helpless amazement, "Oh, hell. Must. Mate. Immediately.

No one was sleeping. The world had been stirred by a hot poker, and sparks of crazy were flying.

You're attacking that one like a wolverine.

I said: I could be a wolf for you. I could put my teeth on your throat. I could growl. I could eat you whole. I could wait for you in the dark. I could howl against your hair.

Fierce was her needle, and she wore it like a sword.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

The blood-longing became stronger than ever before. He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survived.

broken buildings like jagged teeth in the mouth of a mad dog...

She moved in a silent ferocity of dignity which barely escaped being ludicrous.

Some of us love hockey not just for its ferocity and skill but for its underlying code of civility off the ice.

My objective was to hurt the other fighters. I wanted to hurt them. I wanted to be merciless. Man, I was a wild thing. It's kind of a drug, a rush.

I am cowed—by her intelligence, and her ferocity, and the way she's always right. Or at least, she's always right enough to shut me up.   5.

They have no idea the fierceness that lurks within your petite frame.

We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character, not for comedy, not for a philosophic view of life, but for her poetry. Probably that is so with all writers who have, as she has, an overpowering personality, so that . . . they only have to open the door to make themselves felt. There is in them some untamed ferocity perpetually at war with the accepted order of things

No doubt, he is horrible, he is abject, he is a shining example of moral leprosy, a mixture of ferocity and jocularity that betrays supreme misery perhaps, but is not conducive to attractiveness. He

What mad hope or hate makes the young beast's flanks pulsate, what black stars pierce the heart of the tamer!

even in the sight of their fellows, not one escaping. Their furie not thus satisfied, they cut the slayne men in peeces