Passing of Peregrinus/lucian%E2%80%99s Satirical Purpose

Famous quotes containing the words passing, satirical and/or purpose:

    “Believe me, I am passing light in spirit.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The satirical rogue says here that old men have grey beards,
    that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging thick amber
    and plum-tree gum, and that they have a plentiful lack of wit,
    together with most weak hams.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “If God bestowed immortality on every man then when he made him, and he made many to whom he never purposed to give his saving grace, what did his Lordship think that God gave any man immortality with purpose only to make him capable of immortal torments? It is a hard saying, and I think cannot piously be believed. I am sure it can never be proved by the canonical Scripture.”
    —Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)