Famous quotes containing the word fatal:
“Any defeat, however trivial, may be fatal to a savior of the plain people. They never admire a messiah with a bloody nose.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes.”
—Oscar Wilde (18541900)
“I am thirty-threethe age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.”
—Camille Desmoulins (17601794)
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