Malevolent Deity Country

Famous quotes containing the words malevolent, deity and/or country:

    Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    Groundless superstition ill befits an army; valor is the only deity that rules in the warrior’s breast.
    Silius Italicus (26–101)

    To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. Teach him something of natural history, and you place in his hands a catalogue of those which are worth turning round.
    Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)