Famous quotes containing the words pernicious and/or enigma:
“If he say so, may his pernicious soul
Rot half a grain a day! He lies to the heart.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“His moving impulse is no flabby yearning to teach, to expound, to make simple; it is that “obscure inner necessity” of which Conrad tells us, the irresistible creative passion of a genuine artist, standing spell-bound before the impenetrable enigma that is life, enamoured by the strange beauty that plays over its sordidness, challenged to a wondering and half-terrified sort of representation of what passes understanding.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)