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“You can pour holy oil and holy water on a thug until you have emptied buckets of both; but at the end he will be a consecrated thug, but a thug all the same unless interior intentions and a disciplined man are present.”

Men Ends Water Holy Intention Oil Interiors Buckets Thug Holy Water

Author:William Henry O'Connell

“Salamander: Originally a reptile inhabiting fire; later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile. Salamanders are now believed to be extinct, the last one of which we have an account having been seen in Carcassonne by the Abbe Belloc, who exorcised it with a bucket of holy water.”

Stills Lasts Water Fire Holy Accounts Immortal Buckets Reptiles Holy Water Salamanders

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“Wal-mart started selling “Vampire Home Defense Kits”, including holy water, crosses, stakes, mallets, and a book of quick blessings to bar vampires from your door. The fact that these kits were generally useless didn't bother me nearly as much as the idea of holy water being sold at wal-mart.”

Book Ideas Facts Home Water Doors Holy Blessing Crosses Including Defense Bars Selling Vampire Useless Bother Stakes Holy Water

Book:Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs

Source: Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs

“Let me die a youngman's death not a clean and in-between- the-sheets, holy-water death.”

Dies Water Holy Let Me Clean Sheets Holy Water

Author:Roger McGough

“I had been painting Kate Moss for a long time, both before the time of her crisis and during it. I felt very strongly for her - she's a hard-working mum and it seemed as if suddenly the world turned against her. Holy water cannot help you now is painted in very warm pretty colours.”

Ifs World Long Hard Helping Felt Water Painting Hard Work Holy Long Time Crisis Warm Colour Very Strong Mum Kate Moss Holy Water

Author:Stella Vine

“The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despots dread of a newspaper that laughs.”

Matter Light Water Laughing Holy Devil Newspapers Dread Aversion Despots Holy Water

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

“A bath in Ganges undoubtedly absolves one of all sins; but what does that avail? They say that the sins perch on trees along the banks of the Ganges. No sooner does the man come back from the holy waters that the old sins jump on his shoulders from the trees. The same old sins take possession of him again. He is hardly out of the waters before they fall upon him.”

Men Doe Fall Water Sin Tree He Man Holy Possession Shoulders Baths Holy Water

Author:Ramakrishna

“Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don't do any good, but they don't necessarily do any harm. It's touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I've got my just desserts.”

Thinking Way Wells Looks Mean Water Prayer Fine Holy Harm Touching Dessert Holy Water

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“I must frankly admit that... I should probably lose all interest in life and would rather not be a German at all. But since, thank the Lord, this cannot be done, we have no need to be surprised that the health, unspoiled people avoid 'bourgeois mass meetings' as the devil holy water.”

People Needs Should Done Interest Water Loses Lord Holy Mass Devil Meetings Bourgeois Holy Water Interest In Life

Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf