Fatal Quotes

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog his race.

Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Oriental history, from the disasters of which the Princes of the Captivity were not exempt.

Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; to every day we live, a day we die.

Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. Anyway, more people like scrambled eggs than caviar.

Reverence is fatal to literature.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather than suffer.

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.

There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.

I cut the emergency switch just in time to keep 'Winnie Mae' from making an exhibition of herself by standing on her nose. That would have been fatal to our hopes.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

When they tested Fatal Attraction, the audiences were so upset by her behavior, they literally demanded her blood.

Lack of charisma can be fatal.

The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.

I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.

Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is, the forming of societies or any other artificial combinations IS the first, greatest, and most fatal mistake ever committed by legislators and by reformers.

Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence.