Wrath

Famous quotes containing the word wrath:

“our sulky, sullen dame,
Gathering her brows like gathering storm,
Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.”
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)

“Neither the wrath of Heaven nor the attacks of enemies
are as fatal as Pleasure alone when she infects the mind.”
—Silius Italicus (26–101)

“It smells like gangrene starting in a mildewed silo; it tastes like the wrath to come, and when you absorb a deep swig of it you have all the sensations of having swallowed a lighted kerosene lamp.”
—For the State of Kentucky, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)