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Quotes About Fiend

She's a gorehound, a horror fiend, the more brutal the better, bring it on, faster, pussycat, kill kill kill, but that's all on-screen. And at some level she never forgets that all the blood's corn syrup.
~ Stephen Graham Jones
The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
~ Erich Fromm
On a merry-go-round in the night Coriolis was shaken with fright Despite how he walked 'Twas like he was stalked By some fiend always pushing him right!
~ Gregory Benford
My heart palpitated in the sickness of fear; and I hurried on with irregular steps, not daring to look about me: Like one who, on a lonely road, Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turn'd round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
~ Mary Shelley
You are in the wrong," replied the fiend; "and, instead of threatening, I am content to reason with you.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
my present sensations strongly intimated that the fiend would follow me, and exempt my family from the danger of his machinations.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Like one who, on a lonely road, Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. Continuing thus, I came at length opposite to the inn at which the various diligences and carriages usually stopped.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I took every precaution to defend my person, in case the fiend should openly attack me. I carried pistols and a dagger constantly about me, and was ever on the watch to prevent artifice; and by these means gained a greater degree of tranquillity.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The difference between the word fiend and friend is merely one letter. I could easily be the latter. If you knew me better...
~ Joseph Delaney
What is evil?' asked the Fiend
~ Joseph Delaney
It was the eldritch scurrying of those fiend-born rats, always questing for new horrors, and determined to lead me on even unto those grinning caverns of earth's centre where Nyarlathotep, the mad faceless god, howls blindly in the darkness to the piping of two amorphous idiot flute-players.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Love is a fiend, a fire, a heaven, a hell Where pleasure, pain, and sad repentance dwell
~ Richard Barnfield
Discretion prevented me from saying that I thought she was a fiend from the underworld and that mountain lions couldn't force me to enter her service.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
It was long before the terror of recent events subsided; and to this hour the image of Carmilla returns to memory with ambiguous alternations—sometimes the playful, languid, beautiful girl; sometimes the writhing fiend I saw in the ruined church; and often from a reverie I have started, fancying I heard the light step of Carmilla at the drawing room door.
~ Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
and to this hour the image of Carmilla returns to mind with ambiguous alterations--sometimes the playful, languid, beautiful girl; sometimes the writhing fiend I saw in the ruined church; and often from a reverie I have started, fancying I heard the light step of Carmilla at the drawing room door.
~ Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
All that is contrary to love and peace is of the Fiend and of his part.
~ Julian of Norwich
So seemed it to me, as I stood at her helm, and for long hours silently guided the way of this fire-ship on the sea. Wrapped, for that interval, in darkness myself, I but the better saw the redness, the madness, the ghastliness of others. The continual sight of the fiend shapes before me, capering half in smoke and half in fire, these at last begat kindred visions in my soul, so soon as I began to yield to that unaccountable drowsiness which ever would come over me at a midnight helm.
~ Herman Melville
It was better to die like a man; to die like a sailor in blue water no man can object. But I am captain, and must not leave my ship. But I shall baffle this fiend or monster, for I shall tie my hands to the wheel when my strength begins to fail, and along with them I will tie that which He- It!- dare not touch; and then, come good wind or foul, I shall save my soul, and my honour as captain.
~ Bram Stoker
It pays to advertise," Nanny agreed. "This is Greebo. Between you and me, he's a fiend from hell." "Well, he's a cat," said Mrs. Gogol, generously. "It's only to be expected.
~ Terry Pratchett
Pray God, not that; yet I fear something, Captain Ahab. Is not this harpoon for the White Whale? For the white fiend! But now for the barbs; thou must make them thyself, man. Here are my razors—the best of steel; here, and make the barbs sharp as the needle-sleet of the Icy Sea.
~ Herman Melville
I'm a Christopher Nolan fiend. I love 'Inception,' 'Interstellar,' 'The Prestige,' 'Memento' and of course the Batman trilogy. I love all his movies.
~ J. J. Redick
M: Don't go there. Besides, you want to tell me about this prom date? Hmm? J: He's just a fiend. We barely know each other. M: Nice, The stuff dreams are made of.
~ Kelly Bingham
The fiend in his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the breast of men.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Thus Ethan Brand become a fiend. He began to be so from the moment that his moral nature had ceased to keep the pace of improvement with his intellect. And now, as his highest effort and inevitable development -- as the bright and gorgeous flower, and rich, delicious fruit of his life's labor -- had had produced the Unpardonable Sin!
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne