Famous quotes containing the words inflict, grievous and/or bodily:
“It should be noted that when he seizes a state the new ruler ought to determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He should inflict them once and for all, and not have to renew them every day.”
—Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527)
“They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)
“The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.”
—Sarah Bernhardt (1845–1923)
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