inferno quotes

The idea, anyway, was to ward off trouble. But now the moronic inferno had caught up with me.

- Saul Bellow
  Humboldt's Gift. Martin  Amis used the phrase The Moronic Inferno as the title for a book of essays on the US (1986).

   An account†of the decadence occupying the trough between the two world wars introduces us to a moronic inferno of insipidityand decay.

- (Percy) Wyndham Lewis
  Rude Assignment, ch.31.

England is not the jewelled isle of Shakespeare's much- quoted passage, nor is it the inferno depicted by Dr Goebbels. More than either it resembles a family, a rather stuffy Victorian family, with not many black sheep in it but with all its cupboards bursting with skeletons.

- George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair Orwell
The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius, pt.3,'Shopkeeper at War'.