“The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil's own satanic herd!”
Source: Blackadder II: Complete Series
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English actor, comedian, and screenwriter 1955Related quotes
“I’m a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet, under a cow pat.”
Source: Nightwood (1936), Ch. 5 : Watchman, What of the Night?
“You follow the same paths of thought as before. Only, they appear strewn with roses.”
Man geht immer die gleichen Wege des Denkens wie vorher. Nur scheinen sie mit Rosen bestreut.
"Main features of my first impression of hashish" (18 December 1927), On Hashish (2006), p. 22
Main features of my first impression of hashish (1927)
“This is the devil. Flesh to flesh, he bleats
The herd back to the pit of being.”
"The Knight, Death and the Devil," lines 17-20
The Seven-League Crutches (1951)
Context: His eye a ring inside a ring inside a ring
That leers up, joyless, vile, in meek obscenity —
This is the devil. Flesh to flesh, he bleats
The herd back to the pit of being.
"Beyond the Black River" (1935)
Context: "There's nothing in the universe cold steel won't cut," answered Conan. "I threw my ax at the demon, and he took no hurt, but I might have missed in the dusk, or a branch deflected its flight. I'm not going out of my way looking for devils; but I wouldn't step out of my path to let one go by."
