Lord Peter Flint

Famous quotes containing the words lord, peter and/or flint:

    Now the spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD tormented him.
    Bible: Hebrew, 1 Samuel 16:14.

    A man’s idea in a card game is war—cruel, devastating and pitiless. A lady’s idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.
    —Finley Peter Dunne (1867–1936)

    Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881)