Manyheaded Quotes
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There still remains, to mortifya wit, The many-headed
monster of the pit.
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More Manyheaded Quotes
Consensus politics means that you cannot afford to give the many-headed beast, the public, anything to vote against, for voting against is what gargantuan pseudodemocracy has to come down to.
Germaine Greer— "The Big Tease" (October 1972), p. 138
This many-headed monster, Multitude.
Samuel Daniel— Samuel Daniel, History of the Civil War (1595), Book II, Stanza 13.
Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain? Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a changeful dream; Fantastic as a woman's mood, And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood— Thou many-headed monster thing, Oh, who would wish to be thy king?
walter scott— Walter Scott, Lady of the Lake (1810), Canto V, Stanza 30.
He himself stuck not to call us the many-headed multitude.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Coriolanus (c. 1607-08), Act II, scene 3, line 14.
This many-headed monster, The giddy multitude.
Philip Massinger— The Roman Actor (1626), Act iii. Sc. 2. Compare: "Many-headed multitude", Sir Philip Sidney, Defence of Poesy, Book ii; "Many-headed multitude", William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, act ii, scene 3; "This many-headed monster, Multitude", Daniel, History of the Civil War, book ii, st. 13.
I hear my father-in-law's response..."Naïve, dreaming Adam. He who would do battle with the many-headed hydra of human nature must pay a world of pain & his family must pay it along with him! & only as you gasp your dying breath shall you understand, your life amounted to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean!" Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?
david mitchell— The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing, Monday, 13th January —, p. 528-529.
Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain! Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a changeful dream; Fantastic as a woman's mood, And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood. Thou many-headed monster thing, Oh who would wish to be thy king!
walter scott— Canto V, stanza 30.
This many-headed monster, Multitude.
Samuel Daniel— Samuel Daniel, History of the Civil War (1595), Book II, Stanza 13.
Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain? Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a changeful dream; Fantastic as a woman's mood, And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood Thou many-headed monster thing, Oh, who would wish to be thy king?
walter scott— Walter Scott, Lady of the Lake (1810), Canto V, Stanza 30.
This many-headed monster.
Philip Massinger— Philip Massinger, Roman Actor, Act III, scene 4.
There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.
Alexander Pope— Alexander Pope, Horace, Epistle I, Book II, line 30.
Many-headed multitude.
— Sir Philip Sidney, Arcadia, Book II.
Many-headed multitude.
philip sidney— Book II. Compare: "Many-headed multitude", William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, act ii. sc. 3.; "This many-headed monster, Multitude", Daniel, History of the Civil War, book ii. st. 13.
Many-headed multitude.
— Sir Philip Sidney, Arcadia, Book II.
Many-headed multitude.
— First Citizen, scene iii
