Grim Quotes
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Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hushed in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
thomas gray— Thomas Gray, The Bard, (1757), II, 2, Line 9.
Come, see the Dolphin's anchor forged; 'tis at a white heat now: The billows ceased, the flames decreased; though on the forge's brow The little flames still fitfully play through the sable mound; And fitfully you still may see the grim smiths ranking round, All clad in leathern panoply, their broad hands only bare; Some rest upon their sledges here, some work the windlass there.
— Samuel Ferguson, The Forging of the Anchor, Stanza 1.
All unprejudiced persons objectively surveying the grim events in Bangla Desh since March 25 have recognized the revolt of 75 million people, a people who were forced to the conclusion that neither their life, nor their liberty, to say nothing of the possibility of the pursuit of happiness, was available to them.
indira gandhi— Referring to the fundamental rights of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" in the United States Declaration of Independence in a letter to Richard Nixon (December 15, 1971).[2]
Beautiful, ugly, impressive, disgusting, meaningless, grim, contradictory etc … It makes no difference, as long as it is life, vigorously pouring forth.
asger jorn— Ansigt til Ansigt [Face to Face], A-5, 1 (1944), p. 14
How unpleasant to meet Mr Eliot! With his features of clerical cut, And his brow so grim And his mouth so prim.
— 1936 'Five-Finger Exercises'.
Theyare sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs 578 Grate on their scrannel Pipes of wretched straw, The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swollen with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread, Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said, But that two-handed engine at the door, Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
john milton— 1637 Lycidas, l.122-31.
The grim fact, however, is that we prepare for war like precocious giants and for peace like retarded pygmies.
Lester Bowles Pearson— 1957 Acceptance speech on receiving the Nobel peace prize, 11 Dec.
That way of life against which my generation rebelled had given us grim courage, fortitude, self-discipline, a sense of individual responsibility, and a capacity for relentless hard work.
rose wilder lane— Written in 1935, as quoted in The Ghost in the Little House, ch. 2, by William V. Holtz (1993)
The Devil is not the Prince of Matter; the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit , faith without smile , truth that is never seized by doubt . The Devil is grim because he knows where he is going, and, in moving, he always returns whence he came.
Umberto Eco— William of Baskerville
Oh, if I had Orpheus ' voice and poetry with which to move the Dark Maid and her Lord, I'd call you back, dear love, from the world below. I'd go down there for you. Charon or the grim King's dog could not prevent me then from carrying you up into the fields of light.
Euripides— l. 358. (Alcestis (438 BC))
Lovers to-day and for all time Preserve the meaning of my rhyme: Love is not kindly nor yet grim But does to you as you to him.
robert graves— "Advice To Lovers"
For one who has read the works of Marx it is frightening to look back at the grim determination with which so many nations steadfastly hewed to the very course which he insisted would lead to their undoing.
robert heilbroner— Chapter VI, Karl Marx, p. 158
Poor Felix Randal; How far from then forethought of, all thy more boisterous years, When thou at the random grim forge, powerful amidst peers, Didst fettle for the great grey drayhorse his bright and battering sandal!
gerard manley hopkins— Felix Randal, lines 11-14
He rode as rides the hurricane; He seem'd to swallow up the plain; He rode as never man did ride, He rode, for ghosts rode at his side, And on his right a grizzled grim No, no, this tale is not of him.
joaquin miller— I, p. 15. (The Ship in the Desert (1875))
I met Murder on the way He had a mask like Castlereagh Very smooth he looked, yet grim; Seven blood-hounds followed him.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— St. 2. (The Mask of Anarchy (1819))
There is grim irony in speaking of the freedom of contract of those who, because of their economic necessities, give their service for less than is needful to keep body and soul together.
harlan f. stone— Morehead v. N.Y. ex rel. Tipaldo, 298 U.S. 587, 632 (1936).
Thou hast a grim appearance, and thy face Bears a command in 't: though thy tackle's torn, Thou show'st a noble vessel.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Coriolanus (c. 1607-08), Act IV, scene 5, line 66.
Ghastly, grim, and ancient Raven, wandering from the Nightly shore, Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore! Quoth the Raven "Nevermore!"
— Edgar Allen Poe, The Raven (1844), Stanza 8.
Who pass'd, methought, the melancholy flood With that grim ferryman which poets write of, Unto the kingdom of perpetual night.
— Richard III (c. 1591), Act I, scene 4, line 45.
There's a grim one-horse hearse in a jolly round trot; To the churchyard a pauper is going I wot; The road it is rough, and the hearse has no springs, And hark to the dirge that the sad driver sings Rattle his bones over the stones, He's only a pauper whom nobody owns.
thomas noel— Thomas Noel, The Pauper's Drive.
In particular with the grim struggle for the succession still fresh in their minds, they urged - very reasonably - that before leaving Macedonia he should marry and beget an heir. However, the king rejected this motion out of hand, a decision which was to cause untold bloodshed and political chaos after his death. It would be shameful, he told them, for the captain - general of the Hellenes, with Philip's invincible army at his command, to idle his time away on matrimonial dalliance...
— Peter Green, "Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography"
The Devil is not the Prince of Matter; the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit , faith without smile , truth that is never seized by doubt . The Devil is grim because he knows where he is going, and, in moving, he always returns whence he came.
— Umberto Eco in The Name of the Rose (1980)
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
theodore roosevelt— 26th U.S. President
In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.
Alexander Pope— Alexander Pope, Messiah, line 47.
Gaily I lived as ease and nature taught, And spent my little life without a thought, And am amazed that Death, that tyrant grim, Should think of me, who never thought of him.
— Abbé Regnier; Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 787-90.
