Potent

Famous quotes containing the word potent:

“Graves at my command
Have waked their sleepers, oped, and let ‘em forth
By my so potent art. But this rough magic
I here abjure.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“No power on earth or above the bottomless pit has such influence to terrorize and make cowards of men as the liquor power. Satan could not have fallen on a more potent instrument with which to thrall the world. Alcohol is king!”
—Eliza “Mother” Stewart (1816–c. 1908)

“Oh, I must keep my heart inviolate
Against the potent poison of your hate.”
—Claude McKay (1889–1948)