“And I must speak plainly. If I were a judge, I would have such a poisonous, syphilitic whore tortured by being broken on the wheel and having her veins lacerated, for it is not to be denied what damage such a filthy whore does to young blood, so that it is unspeakably damaged before it is even fully grown and destroyed in the blood.”
Source: Table Talk (1569), pp. 552-554 (1566); cited in Susan C. Karant-Nunn & Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks [editors and translators], Luther on Women: a Sourcebook, Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 157-158)
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seminal figure in Protestant Reformation 1483–1546Related quotes
“I have not one drop of blood in my veins but what is American.”
To an ambassador (1785), as quoted in The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: Autobiography http://books.google.com/books?id=lWcsAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA392 (1851), by Charles F. Adams, p. 392.
1780s
Context: Neither my father or mother, grandfather or grandmother, great grandfather or great grandmother, nor any other relation that I know of, or care a farthing for, has been in England these one hundred and fifty years; so that you see I have not one drop of blood in my veins but what is American.
“I have Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, French and Ethiopian blood in my veins.”
As quoted in TIME magazine obituary, (5 April 2004) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,501040412-607849,00.html, p. 22, which noted that his great-grandfather had married the Princess of Ethiopia.
“Madam, you have bereft me of all words,
Only my blood speaks to you in my veins”
Source: The Merchant of Venice
“Treat a whore like a lady and a lady like a whore.”
Quoted by Anita Loos, Kiss Hollywood Goodbye, Viking Press, New York, 1974, ISBN 0-670-41374-7. Loos goes on to claim that "the aphorism had no validity for Wilson."
Epigrams
“He who lets himself be whored by fashion will be whored by time.”
Book II, Ch. 21: Love is Not Enough
You Can't Go Home Again (1940)
Speech in Dundee (29 October 1890), quoted in The Times (30 october 1890), p. 4
1890s
