Wormwood Quotes

• Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.

  C. S. Lewis

  Enemy, Looks, Letters

  C. S. LEWIS (1961). “The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast”

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• There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah!" -Harry Wormwood

  Roald Dahl

  Book, Television

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• Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Alive, Seventies

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• The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water-the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.

  John the Apostle

  Stars, Spring, Angel

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• Some nights are like honey - and some like wine - and some like wormwood.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Wine, Night, Honey

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “EMILY STAR - Complete Trilogy: Emily of New Moon + Emily Climbs + Emily's Quest: Classic of Children's Literature”, p.626, e-artnow

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• If you can sin and not weep over it, you are an heir of Hell. If you can go into sin, and afterwards feel satisfied to have done so, you are on the road to destruction. If there are no prickings of conscience, no inward torments, no bleeding wounds; if you have no throbs and heavings of a bosom that cannot rest; if your soul never feels filled with wormwood and gall when you know you have done evil, you are no child of God.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Children, Evil, Soul

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 13: Sermons 728 to 787”, p.783, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• With the first kiss his mouth will taste of wormwood.

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Kissing, First Kiss, Mouths

  Harlan Ellison, Thomas Ligotti, Poppy Z. Brite, F. Paul Wilson (2010). “Cthulhu 2000”, p.146, Del Rey

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• I know sage, wormwood, and hyssop, but I can't smell character unless it stinks.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Character, Smell, Sage

  Edward Dahlberg (1965). “Reasons of the heart”

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• Desire is poison at lunch and wormwood at dinner; your bed is a stone, friendship is hateful and your fancy is always fixed on one thing.

  Pietro Aretino

  Sex, Lunch, Desire

  Pietro Aretino (1926). “The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix”

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• [A] truly humble spirit humbles itself as much amid honors as amid insults, acting like the honeybee which makes its honey equally as well from the dew that falls on the wormwood as from that which falls on the rose.

  Vincent de Paul

  Fall, Humble, Rose

  Saint Vincent de Paul (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: I. Correspondence. v. 1. 1607-1639”, BNA Books (Bureau of National Affairs)

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• Miss Wormwood: Calvin, your test was an absolute disgrace! It's obvious you haven't read any of the material. Our first president was not Chef Boy-Ar-Dee and you ought to be ashamed to have turned in such preposterous answers! Calvin: I just don't test well.

  Bill Watterson

  Boys, Missing, President

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• On rolls the stream with a perpetual sigh;
  The rocks moan wildly as it passes by;
  Hyssop and wormwood border all the strand,
  And not a flower adorns the dreary land.

  William C. Bryant

  Flower, Rocks, Land

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• I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.

  Bill Watterson

  Stupid, Dumb, Useless

  "Calvin and Hobbes". Comic strip by Bill Watterson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 1985 – December 31, 1995.

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• A girl should think about making herself look attractive so she can get a good husband later on. Looks is more important than books, Miss Hunky..." "The name is Honey," Miss Honey said. "Now look at me," Mrs Wormwood said. "Then look at you. You chose books. I chose looks.

  Roald Dahl

  Girl, Husband, Book

  Roald Dahl (1996). “Matilda”, Puffin

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• Removing the weeds, putting fresh soil about the bean stems, and encouraging this weed which I had sown, making the yellow soil express its summer thought in bean leaves and blossoms rather than in wormwood and piper and millet grass, making the earth say beans instead of grass, - this was my daily work.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Weed, Work

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden and Civil Disobedience”, p.113, Xist Publishing

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• Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm's Thermonuclear League of Liberty. Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin. Calvin: [retrospectively] I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.

  Bill Watterson

  Class, League, Superhero

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• Surely it is a matter of joy, that your faith in Jesus has been preserved; the Comforter that should relieve you is not far from you. But as you are a Christian, in the name of that Saviour, who was filled with bitterness and made druken with wormwood, I conjre you to have recourse in frequent prayer to 'his God and your God,' the God of mercies, and father of all comfort. Your poor father is, I hope, almost senseless of the calamity; the unconscious instrument of Divine Providence knows it not, and your mother is in heaven.

  Charles Lamb

  Christian, Mother, Jesus

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (1935). “The Letters of Charles Lamb: To which are Added Those of His Sister, Mary Lamb. Edited by E.V. Lucas”

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