Potent

Famous quotes containing the word potent:

    “A potent quack, long versed in human ills,
    Who first insults the victim whom he kills;
    Whose murd’rous hand a drowsy bench protect,
    And whose most tender mercy is neglect.”
    —George Crabbe (1754–1832)

    “Thinking about suicide is a potent consolation: it helps us to get through many a bad night.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “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)