Authors:

Gunpowder Quotes

Remember, remember the 5th of November.

Remember, remember the 5th of November.

"V for Vendetta". Comisc book by Alan Moore, 1982-986.

Genius, as an explosive power, beats gunpowder hollow.

Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

The proverb answers where the sermon fails.

William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.15

Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1854). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.364

Her voice left a flavor of honey and gunpowder on the air.

Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

Exercise is the worst thing in the world and as bad an invention as gunpowder.

Horace Walpole (1861). “The letters of Horace Walpole: earl of Orford”, p.394