A demon holds a book, in which are written the sins of a
particular man; an Angel drops on it from a phial, a tear which
the sinner had shed in doing a good action, and his sins are
washed out.
Alberic
Quotes , Source: a manuscript, found in article on Dante, selections from "Edinburgh Review", vol. I, p. 67
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Bad language or abuse
I never, never use,
Whatever the emergency;
Though "Bother it" I may
Occasionally say,
I never never use a big, big D.
William S. Gilbert
Quotes , Source: H.M.S. Pinafore
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Though "Bother it" I may
Occasionally say,
I never never use a big, big, D.
William S. Gilbert
Quotes , Source: H.M.S. Pinafore
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There written all
Black as the damning drops that fall
From the denouncing Angel's pen,
Ere Mercy weeps them out again.
Thomas Moore
Quotes , Source: Lalla Rookh--Paradise and the Peri (st. 28)
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And each blasphemer quite escape the rod,
Because the insult's not on man, but God?
Alexander Pope
Quotes , Source: Epilogue to Satires (dialogue II, l. 199)
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
[Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi necesse est, gravi viro parum
convenit.]
Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilian)
Quotes , Source: De Institutione Oratoria (IX, 2)
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And then a whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing, as
if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my
pleasure.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Cymbeline (Cloten at II, i)
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When a gentlemen is disposed to swear, it is not for any
standers-by to curtail his oaths.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Cymbeline (Cloten at II, i)
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I'll be damned for never a king's son in Christendom.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Falstaff at I, ii)
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That in the captain's but a choleric word,
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Measure for Measure (Isabella at II, ii)
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Do not swear at all;
Or if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self,
Which is the god of my idolatry,
And I'll believe thee.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Romeo and Juliet (Juliet at II, ii)
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So soon as ever thou seest him, draw; and as thou draw'st, swear
horrible; for it comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a
swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more
approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Toby at III, iv)
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Our armies swore terrible in Flanders.
Laurence Sterne
Quotes , Source: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (bk. III, ch. XI)
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"He shall not die, by God," cried by uncle Toby. The Accusing
Spirit which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed
as he gave it in: and the Recording Angel as he wrote it down,
dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever.
Laurence Sterne
Quotes , Source: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (bk. VI, ch. VIII)
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