BLOOD QUOTES III

quotations about blood

The blood more stirs
To rouse a lion than to start a hare.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

King Henry IV, Part I


Amazing how being bathed in arterial blood can wash out any lingering romantic disappointments.

DIANA PETERFREUND

Rampant


But be sure you do not eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.

BIBLE

Deuteronomy 12:23


Unless our shoes are filled with blood we
haven't walked

DANIEL ABDAL-HAYY MOORE

"Let the Snake Who Knows the Secret"


No distance breaks the tie of blood;
Brothers are brothers evermore.

JOHN KEBLE

The Christian Year: Second Sunday After Trinity


They speak of blood that makes things pure,
But blood makes stains that long endure
And cause the cloth to which they cling
To seem a spoiled and dirty thing.

JAMES L. CLARK

Hourglass and Other Poems


Blood will have blood.

ROBERT SOUTHEY

Madoc in Wales


Sometimes blood, for the sake of sparing it, is spilled.

VITTORIO ALFIERI

Timoleon


When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul
Lends the tongue vows.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Hamlet


That blood which thou hast spill'd, should join you closely in an eternal bond.

VITTORIO ALFIERI

Rosmunda


I am in blood
Stepp'd so far that, should I wade no more,
Returning were as tedious as go o'er.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Macbeth


The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.

RICHARD BACH

Illusions


The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


I learned to play the instruments of war ... and paint in blood.

CASSANDRA CLARE

City of Lost Souls


Blood is a juice of rarest quality.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Faust


Blood began to flow, at first cautiously, as if embarrassed by its appearance; a few thin red lines exploring the gravitational trajectory of its new terrain.

R.D. RONALD

The Zombie Room