A Quote by Aldous Huxley

Wild inside; raging, writhing—yes, "writhing" was the word, writhing with desire. But outwardly he was hopelessly tame; outwardly—baa, baa, baa.

Aldous Huxley

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Desire Hopelessly Inside Raging Tame Wild Word Yes

Quote Author

Aldous Huxley
English - Writer
July 26, 1894 - November 22, 1963

We're poor little lambs who've lost our way, Baa! Baa! Baa! We're little black sheep who've gone astray, Baa-aa-aa! Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to Eternity, God ha' mercy on such as we, Baa! Yah! Bah!

Rudyard Kipling

From the window, above the clatter of pots and the slamming of cabinets, Francis was singing, as though it was the happiest song in the world: 'We are the little black sheep who have gone astray . . . Baa baa baa . . . Gentlemen songsters off on a spree . . . Doomed from here to eternity . . .

Donna Tartt

My husband sings Baa Baa black sheep and we pretend that all's certain and good, that the marriage won't end.

Anne Sexton

Well, you certainly are the most wonderfully woolly baa-lamb that ever stepped.

P. G. Wodehouse

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims

Rabindranath Tagore

Tugay is writhing around all over the place as if he were dead

Alan Green

I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor.

Thomas Harris

The narcissist devours people, consumes their output, and casts the empty, writhing shells aside.

Sam Vaknin

At the time of his death, John Kennedy had a national security establishment that was a writhing ball of snakes.

Charlie Pierce

One of the lambs fixed its attention on Jared. “Baa,” it flirted. “Boo,” said Jared. “Oh my God, Jared. Don’t tough-talk the lambs.” "It was giving me a funny look.

Sarah Rees Brennan

Singular indeed the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one among them to be found, to raise the voice of complaint.

Abraham Lincoln

Reeling and Writhing of course, to begin with,' the Mock Turtle replied, 'and the different branches of arithmetic-ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision.

Lewis Carroll

Nature is a perfect example of the harmony between the beautiful and the brutal. You turn over a pretty rock and there are worms writhing underneath.

Sarah McLachlan

There are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down and in torment.