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Bolts Quotes

I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.

Guy de Maupassant (2015). “Guy de Maupassant – The Complete Works: Short Stories, Novels, Plays, Poetry, Memoirs and more: Original Versions of the Novels and Stories in French, An Interactive Bilingual Edition with Literary Essays on Maupassant by Tolstoy, Joseph Conrad and Henry James”, p.4383, e-artnow

The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.

Lucretius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)”, p.142, Delphi Classics

Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt.

Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.31, Canongate Books

Some innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt.

William Shakespeare (2001). “The Tragedie of Antonie and Cleopatra”, p.136, Classic Books Company

A fooles bolt is soone shot.

John Heywood, Julian Sharman (1972). “The Proverbs of John Heywood: Being the "Proverbes" of that Author Printed 1546”

Dead, hung up indoors, the kingfisher will not indicate a favoring wind, or avert the thunderbolt.

Charles Olson (1997). “The Collected Poems of Charles Olson: Excluding the Maximus Poems”, p.87, Univ of California Press