(85 quotes found)
“From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow”
Joseph Addison
“The lion is not so fierce as they paint him”
George Herbert
“Some women pick men to marry--and others pick them to pieces.”
Mae West
“I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine /and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so /and now the dross is coming.”
Lord Byron
“But as I raved and grew more fierce and wild / At every word, / Methought I heard one calling, `Child'; / And I replied, `My Lord'.”
“Never suffer your courage to exert itself in fierceness, your resolution in obstinacy, your wisdom in cunning, nor your patience in sullenness and despair.”
Charles Palmer
“Bright and fierce and fickle is the South,/ And dark and true and tender is the North.”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Fierce extremesIn their continuances will not feed themselves.”
William Shakespeare
“But you are normal!" said Harry fiercely. "You've just got a-a problem-"Lupin burst out laughing. "Sometimes you remind me alot of James. He called it my 'furry little problem' in company. Many people were under the impression that I owned a badly behaved rabbit.”
Joanne Kathleen Rowling
“I know that I could really kill for my daughter. I know because I'm living for her, so I'm fierce when it comes down to it. And I feel the same about my husband and my family. I'm just fiercely protective. It's like, that's my lair and nobody messes with my lair.”
Whitney Houston
