(13 quotes found)
“I had rather be a toad And live upon the vapor of a dungeon Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others' uses”
William Shakespeare
“Never build a dungeon YOU can't get out of.”
Terry Pratchett
“When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner.”
George Bernard Shaw
“We are all serving a life-sentence in the dungeon of self”
Cyril Connolly
“It was, actually. I started playing Dungeons & Dragons the first week it was introduced to the market - at least the first week it was introduced down here.”
Stephen Colbert
“Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.”
Bible
“A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air”
Walter Winchell
“I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.”
“When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days; / Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took him out: and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from the LORD? And Jeremiah said, There is: for, said he, thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.”
“Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.”
