Chloroform Quotes

• Might I trouble you to open the window, for chloroform vapour does not help the palate.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Sarcasm, Doe

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “Sherlock Holmes. Selected Stories”, p.313, OUP Oxford

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• The Book of Mormon is chloroform in print

  Mark Twain

  Book, Print

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• All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the "elect" have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble to read it. I brought away a copy from Salt Lake. The book is a curiosity to me, it is such a pretentious affair, and yet so "slow," so sleepy; such an insipid mess of inspiration. It is chloroform in print. If Joseph Smith composed this book, the act was a miracle — keeping awake while he did it was, at any rate.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Taken, Inspiration

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4678, Delphi Classics

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• El licor es el cloroformo que permite al pobre hombre soportar la dolorosa operación de vivir.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Painful, Poor

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• Si vivieras en Londres, donde todo el sistema es de falsa buena camaradería, y puedes conocer a un hombre durante veinte años sin descubrir que te odia como a un veneno, pronto se te abrirían los ojos. Allí hacemos cosas desagradables de forma amable: decimos cosas amargas con voz dulce: siempre damos cloroformo a nuestros amigos cuando los hacemos pedazos.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sweet, Hate, Eye

  George Bernard Shaw (2011). “You Never Can Tell”, p.115, The Floating Press

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• Señoras del coro, quiero que suenen como veintidós mujeres dando a luz sin cloroformo.

  John Barbirolli

  Música, Bebé, Dos

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• Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has ''cast up'' in my time or is like to -- this art by which even the ''poor'' can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent dear ones. And mustn't it be acting favorably on the morality of the country?

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Photography, Country, Art

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• Every parent knows that for a kid, the car is chloroform.

  Ray Romano

  Divertido, Bebé, Niños

  Ray Romano (1999). “Everything and a Kite”, Bantam

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• My Range Rover is great for LA. You can take surfboards on it and stick some bikes in the back. And if you kidnap people you could tie them up in the back, there's space for your chloroform.

  Gerard Butler

  Space, Ties, People

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• Behold me waiting—waiting for the knife.... The thick, sweet mystery of chloroform, The drunken dark, the little death-in-life.... [F]ace to face with chance, I shrink a little: My hopes are strong, my will is something weak. ...I am ready But, gentlemen my porters, life is brittle: You carry Cæsar and his fortunes—steady!

  William Ernest Henley

  Sweet, Strong, Dark

  William Ernest Henley, “Before”

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• I have preferred chloroform to cancer

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Cáncer

  Carol Farley Kessler, Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1995). “Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia with Selected Writings”, p.40, Syracuse University Press

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• American author Mark Twain, while viewed as liberal and non-judgmental, did at times demonstrate both these characteristics. While his reasons for detesting the Christian faith are unclear, they seem to have been profound and deep-rooted. Having lambasted the founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, in a later quote he referred to the Book of Mormon as "chloroform in print."

  Christopher Hitchens

  Christian, Book, Profound

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• Emery cut in impatiantly, "For crying out loud. Who do you think you are, Nancy Drew?" Hey," I snapped, because no one sniped at my sister but me, and Mark echoed with a stern "Chill, dude." Phin was unperturbed. "Those books were highly unrealistic. Do you have any idea how much brain damage a person would have if she were hit on the head and drugged with chloroform that often?

  Rosemary Clement-Moore

  Book, Cutting, Thinking

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• Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.

  Clarence Darrow

  Children, Fit, Beast

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