Bane Quotes Page 2

World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane;

but is not the fruit of pain.

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

I've got a stele we can use. Who wants to do me?" "A regrettable choice of words," muttered Magnus.

What are you to us, you who are cut off from God, a fugitive for Heaven, and a slave of evil? You dare not do anything to us: Christ, the Son of God, has dominion over us and over all. Leave us, you thing of bane. We are made steadfast by the uprightness of His Cross. Serpent, we trample on your head.

Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.

Let me ... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party.

It is the bane and the balm of individual perception that 'objective' reality is seen through the filter of each person's temperament.

Does she still love you?" "I don't think so," Magnus said dryly.

"She wasn't very pleasant the last time I saw her. Of course, that could be because I've got an eighteen year-old boyfriend with a stamina rune and she doesn't." Alec sputtered. "As the person being objectified, I ... object to that description of me.

I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly.

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!

Legalized abortion is a national holocaust;

an affront to our national character; a contradiction of established principles subscribed to from the beginning of Western Civilization; an insult to the principles of our Declaration of Independence; a bane of our national spirit; and a stench in the nostrils of Almighty God.

What is man's greatest bane? His brother man alone.

Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, (I conjure you to believe me fellow citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of Republican Government.

A family can be the bane of one's existence.

A family can also be most of the meaning of one's existence. I don't know whether my family is bane or meaning, but they have surely gone away and left a large hole in my heart.

He’s very pretty. For a human.” “He’s very broken,” said Magnus. “Like a lovely vase that someone has smashed. Only luck and skill can put it back together the way it was before.

If you're texting Magnus to say 'I think u r kewl,' I'm going to kill you.

" "Who's Magnus?" Max inquired. "He's a warlock," said Alec. "A sexy, sexy warlock," Isabelle told Max, ignoring Alec's look of total fury. "But warlocks are bad," protested Max, looking baffled. "Exactly," said Isabelle.

Magnus, standing by the door, snapped his fingers impatiently.

"Move it along, teenagers. The only person who gets to canoodle in my bedroom is my magnificent self." "Canoodle?" repeated Clary, never having heard the word before. "Magnificent?" repeated Jace, who was just being nasty. Magnus growled. The growl sounded like "Get out.

False attributions are the bane of legitimate discourse.

Come in. And try not to murder any of my guests.

I love round tables. They suit me so much better than a square.

Come in. And try not to murder any of my guests." Jace edged into the doorway, sizing up Magnus with his eyes. "Even if one of them spills a drink on my new shoes?" "Even then.

There's no need to clarify my finger snap," said Magnus.

"The implication was clear in the snap itself.

If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books, should be forbid.

I needed to stop eating sweeties and cakes.

It's the bane of my life. I had to lose the weight for my health.

They would be subject to no one, neither to lawful ruler nor to the reign of law, but would be altogether and absolutely free. That is the way they got their tyrants, for either servitude or freedom, when it goes to extremes, is an utter bane, while either in due measure is altogether a boon.

Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence.

Morality, thou deadly bane, Thy tens o' thousands thou hast slain! Vain is his hope, whose stay an' trust is In moral mercy, truth, and justice!

He'd learned his lesson a long time ago: Even in the midst of heartbreak, you could still find yourself laughing.

Magnus was sure that the llama stampede he witnessed was a coincidence.

The llamas could not be judging him.

Eventually I fell asleep in the Rabies and Lycanthropy section.

Woolsey bites on occasion, and I'm concerned.' - Magnus Bane

Pointless, needless suffering and pain? I don’t suppose it would help if I told you that was the way life is. The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away.

Poor Oscar. Without even realizing it he'd fallen into one of those Let's Be Friends Vortexes, the bane of nerdboys everywhere. These relationships were love's version of a stay in the stocks, in you go, plenty of misery guaranteed and what you got out of it besides bitterness and heartbreak nobody knows. Perhaps some knowledge of self and women.

The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.

Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.