Quotes About Bloody

Her reign was of only five days continuance, for Mary, having succeeded by false promises in obtaining the crown, speedily commenced the execution of her avowed intention of extirpating and burning every protestant. She was crowned at Westminister in the usual form, and her elevation was the signal for the commencement of the bloody persecution which followed.

The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,' the lecherous misanthropes of Dickens or the lone gunman from 'The Great Gatsby.'

I remember him, already a defeated old man, getting up before dawn to face the unmusical reality of soiled bloody dressings.)

Here comes Bosola, The only court-gall; yet I observe his railing Is not for simple love of piety: Indeed, he rails at those things which he wants; Would be as lecherous, covetous, or proud, Bloody, or envious, as any man, If he had means to be so.

Nero would be long since forgotten without his outbursts of bloody clowning. ~ Emil Cioran, A Short History of Decay

Whenever we encounter him in the flesh, our faith is made perfect and his necessary and bloody end is executed with a mystical ferocity of joy.

I really loved making 'Love, Nina.' I was in every scene, which was amazing. Bloody hell, what a job!

The horror and despair at so much bloody flesh, nauseating in part, and in part very beautiful, was fairly equivalent to our usual impression upon seeing one another.

War is the true Nature of the world, a dog with matted fur lapping eagerly at the bloody Niles, wagging its threadbare tail the entire time.

The sky over New England was crow black, pitch-black, Bible black, so black it could be difficult at night to keep to the path, so black that a line of trees might freely migrate to another location or that you might find yourself pursued after nightfall by a rabid black hog, leaving you to crawl home, bloody and disoriented, on all fours.

There was murder, there was rape, there were unspeakable practices, and all of them were for the good, the bloody good, the bloody myth, for the grail, for the Tower.

You've forgotten your little car,' she called, as I swept through the door that Nathan held open for me. 'Why, does that need a bloody badge too?' I said, and followed them into the lift.

What was sport but a thin veneer over the factional fighting it had replaced—ritualized violence, bloody entertainment?

History progresses not by negation and the negation of negation, but by deciding problems and affirming differences. It is no less bloody and cruel as a result. Only the shadows of history live by negation.

Justice has nothing to do with it. Stark, bloody, screaming, agonizing vendeance is what I'm talking about.

The next week both small pox and the bloody flux began to go through the camp. General Washington maintained that the flux came from drinking new cider. But the cider-drinking continued, and so for that matter did the flux, which is a terrible death, the bowels emptying out one's life in bloody spasms. I

Some small towns are built on bloody earth and betrayal.

The only certainty we have is that those who are certain of a way to arrive at worldly salvation, are committed enough to organize around this, and seek power to enforce it, will invariably descend into a bloody totalitarian fascism.

It's a dark thing when the world sets no value on you and your kin, and then Death comes stalking in, in his bloody boots".

It's a dark thing when the world sets no value on you or your kin, and then Death comes stalking in, in his bloody boots.

The truth was too primitive and too bloody.

A vampire was drinking a bloody Mary, and from the look on her face Mary was really getting into it.

That's bloody obvious. A schoolboy with a palsied brain could have worked that one out.

Johnson evidently did not want it said that they had murdered the people for their property, but the leaders could not stand to let so much be destroyed. The wagons and their loads, even the bloody clothes, were taken to Cedar City, stored in the Tithing Office, and later sold at auction.