#bloody

Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#bloody #effort #even #every #forms

Most actors are either a shower of bloody scruffs or think they should dress like Hamlet off stage. ↗

— Martin Freeman

#dress #either #hamlet #like #most

Hate is able to provoke disorders, to ruin a social organization, to cast a country into a period of bloody revolutions; but it produces nothing. ↗

— Georges Sorel

#bloody #cast #country #disorders #hate

I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious. ↗

— Oliver Stone

#been #bloody #consequences #easy #horrifying

There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne. ↗

— Jeffrey Bernard

#all day #being #bloody #champagne #day

The only still center of my life is Macbeth. To go back to doing this bloody, crazed, insane mass-murderer is a huge relief after trying to get my cell phone replaced. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#back #bloody #cell #cell phone #center

And each stroke of his tongue ripped off skin after successive skin, all the skins of a life in the world, and left behind a nascent patina of shining hairs. My earrings turned back to water and trickled down my shoulders; I shrugged the drops off my beautiful fur. ↗

— Angela Carter

#the-bloody-chamber #the-tigers-bride #transformation #beauty

The president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody, why not do it that way? ↗

— Richard Land

#bloody #cat #east #getting #grandmother

Ah Padriac. I have often wondered if boys who have flaming red hair up top also have...yep. ↗

— L.A. Meyer

#humor #humor

Give your kids a bloody knife and fork and let me put some fresh food in front of them they can eat. ↗

— Jamie Oliver

#eat #food #fork #fresh #fresh food