“An ugly knife lay buried in the heart of Mad Carew,
'Twas the 'Vengeance of the Little Yellow God.”
The Green Eye of the Yellow God
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J. Milton Hayes 3
British actor and writer 1884–1940Related quotes
“Trust no one at your back unless you want them to bury a knife in it.’ (Syn)”
Source: Born of Fire
“To indulge it is to breed it. To punish it is to feed it. Madness knows no bridle but the knife.”
SCYLVENDI PROVERB
The Thousandfold Thought (2006)
“Twas when young Eustace wore his heart in's breeches.”
Act V.
The Elder Brother (c. 1625; published 1637)
“The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women.”
Opening lines, Ch. 1 "The Problem That Has No Name".
The Feminine Mystique (1963)
Context: The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban housewife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night, she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question — “Is this all?”
“Do the gods light this fire in our hearts
or does each man's mad desire become his god?”
Dine hunc ardorem mentibus addunt,
Euryale, an sua cuique deus fit dira cupido?
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book IX, Lines 184–185 (tr. Fagles)
“She swore vengeance on all men with dark hearts.”
Source: Siren's Storm
