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“A Vigilante Stalks by Stewart Stafford
O slain avenger on the mortal shore,
Moral compass of an immoral craft,
Virtue cloaked with malignant wings,
Intravenous vengeance on two legs.
Grinning charm gave way to coercion,
Cold eyes unwavering from the prize,
Art critic and thief in a rogues' gallery,
Breaking fingers reeking of corruption.
Serving a brew of fear to the fearsome,
Never made you a flavour of the month,
Festering secrets spewed in last breaths,
Before they made you yesterday's man.
© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.”
“A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.”
“A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 83
“A vile beastly rottenheaded foolbegotten brazenthroated pernicous piggish screaming, tearing, roaring, perplexing, splitmecrackle crashmecriggle insane ass of a woman is practising howling below-stairs with a brute of a singingmaster so horribly, that my head is nearly off.”
Source: A Book of Learned Nonsense
“A vile imagination, once indulged, gets the key of our minds, and can get in again very easily, whether we will or no, and can so return as to bring seven other spirits with it more wicked than itself; and what may follow no one knows.”
Source: Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon
“A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.”
Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection
“A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth. Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.”
“A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass.”
“A village somewhere was missing it's idiot.”
Source: Drop Dead Gorgeous: A Novel
“A village that takes care of its children is better than a city that abuses its youth”
“A village woman from a poor family may violate the code of propriety, not because of poverty, but because she has been the victim of the menace of male predators. A woman from a family of the gentry, would never be the victim of such intimidation. Moreover the women of the gentry were bonded to follow their code of conduct and not to transgress, by generations of breeding.”
Source: Gamperaliya
“A villain always preferred luring the heroine to his lair.”
Source: Breathing Room
“A villain can victimize a victim but not a victor. Therefore, choose a path to a victorious life.”
Source: A Manual for Victory
“A villain is just a victim whose story hasn’t been told.”
“A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development.”
Source: Essays in Miniature
“A villain who shares one's guilt is inevitably more attractive than a hero convinced of one's innocence.”
“A vinal shine turns over shades of cerulean and jasper from her expressive lips, revealing a jewel-like surface beneath a light that remains colorfast in a kiss composed of infinite grace. Being in a state of rest, Nadia still makes me the center of attention, dovetailing in an erotic entwinement that impels me to knead her coiling flex. Her resplendent fullness macerated into my bosom now grants me a restful anodyne, enabling the allay of my inner soul.”
Source: The Painter
“A vine bears three grapes, the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, and the third of repentance.”
Source: Complete Works
“A violent act pierces the atmosphere, leaving a hole through which the cold, damp draft of its memory blows forever.”
Source: Trick of the Eye
“A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order. These two things are one.”
“A violent scene is art, as much as a sex scene is art. For me, all the scenes were a challenge.”
“A violent wind does not last for a whole morning.”
Source: Tao Te Ching
“A violent wind does not outlast the morning; a squall of rain does not outlast the day. Such is the course of Nature. And if Nature herself cannot sustain her efforts long, how much less can man!”
“A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent--sweet, not lasting; The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more.”
Source: Hamlet
“A violin is the revenge exacted by the intestines of a dead cat.”
“A violin should be played with love, or not at all.”
“A violinist fiddled.
With strings resined for winter.
Summer's light splintered.”
“A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.”
“A VIP area is nothing without not-so-important people.”
Source: The Confessions of a Misfit
“A virgin a whole virgin is judged made and so between curves and outlines and real seasons and more out glasses and a perfectly unprecedented arrangement between old ladies and mild colds there is no satin wood shining.”
Source: GERTRUDE STEIN Ultimate Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Plays, Memoirs & Essays: Three Lives, Tender Buttons, Geography and Plays, Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas…
“A virgin can conceive. A dead body can walk again. Your leprosy can be cured. The blind can see. Nonsense. It’s not moral to lie to children. It’s not moral to lie to ignorant, uneducated people and tell them that if they only would believe nonsense, they can be saved. It’s immoral.”
“A virgin," Flaminius smiled deviously. "I'll take her." Instantly, surprised chatter erupted. Mother Guardian held up her hand for silence. "You cannot be serious, Sire." "Oh, but I am," he replied with a smirk.”
Source: Taming Flame
“A virgin woman has saved France as a virgin man has saved all mankind. (Une pucelle a sauvé la France, - Comme Un puceau a sauvé tous les hommes.)”
Source: Le Sablier
“A virtual kiss from the boy she liked? That outweighed everything.”
Source: Harp and the Lyre: Exposed
“A virtue never tested is no virtue at all.”
“A virtue of the free enterprise system is that it offers every individual the greatest opportunity for self expression.”
Source: Prosperity through freedom
“A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.”
Source: The Way of All Flesh
“A virtue which is divine is humility.”
“A virtue which is divine is humility. A person who could do great things and still maintain humility of the heart, charity of the heart, goodness of the heart is a person who could actually make a difference in peoples lives in a very positive way.”
“A virtuos woman is not moved by big names and flamboyance, but only men of profound wisdom and integrity move her.”
“A virtuoso performance. Scott Thompson’s biography of the soldier statesman Fidel V. Ramos illustrates the fascinating and complex geography of Filipino politics and its relation with the American hegemon. It’s first-rate scholarship and equally first-rate writing.”
“A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.”
“A virtuous and a Christianlike conclusion--
To pray for them that have done scathe to us.”
Source: Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“A virtuous and industrious people may be cheaply governed.”
“A virtuous and well-disposed person, like a good metal, the more he is fired, the more he is fined; the more he is opposed, the more he is approved: wrongs may well try him, and touch him, but cannot imprint in him any false stamp.”
“A virtuous bride is more precious
than a beautiful one.”
“A virtuous esculent!”
“A virtuous girl never chases after boys; who ever saw a mousetrap chasing mice?”
“A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian.”
Source: A Benjamin Franklin Reader
“A virtuous man concentrates on his own work, not that of others.”