Famous quotes containing the words bend and/or sinister:
“My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“Calm fell. From Heaven distilled a clemency;
There was peace on earth, and silence in the sky;
Some could, some could not, shake off misery:
The Sinister Spirit sneered: ‘It had to be!’
And again the Spirit of Pity whispered, ‘Why?’”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)