Quotes About Subdues

Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.

The phonograph and kinetoscope may some day seize and perpetuate all save the magnetic touch, but that weird, illusive, indefinable yet wonderfully real power by which the orator subdues may never be caught by science or preserved for the cruel dissecting knife of the critic.

Your ignorance, brother, returned she, as the great Milton says, almost subdues my patience.[*] D—n Milton! answered the squire: if he had the impudence to say so to my face, I'd lend him a douse, thof he was never so great a man.

Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong.