Post by Will on Aug 10, 2003 15:22:15 GMT -5
Many thanks to Silver for her title idea.
Slytherin. An air of mystery lingers about the very sound of that name. And this… this is the Slytherin common room in which you stand. If you are not of the serpentine family, I will be kind and let you go this once. Perhaps you have something… unduly favourable to say to us? Well, if you are a noble Slytherin, come with me. Ah, here we go. This, my friend, is a scroll… If you haven’t already figured it out, but you must have because we are intelligent people. Anyway, take this quill and ink to write down quotes, poems, lyrics, etc. in which you believe portrays Slytherin characteristics or just plain Slytherin-y.
--+ The Slytherin Gallery+--
“You are the night and the night alone understands you and enfolds you in its arms. One with the shadows. Without nightmare. And inexplicable peace.”
"The ends justifies the means"
"Evil is a point of view."
"They had forgotten the first lesson: that we must be powerful, beautiful, and without regret."
"It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways." -- Buddha
Battle not with monsters
lest ye become a monster
and if you gaze into the abyss
the abyss gazes into you.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. -- Hannah Arendt
I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth. -- Molly Ivins
"Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are billed to death, those who are worried to death and those who are bored to death." -- Winston Churchill
“Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.” --Lillian Hellman
“A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.” --H. L. Mencken
“Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.” -- Petrarch (1304 - 1374), De Remedies
“You're not the one but you're the only one
Who can make me feel like s***” -- Foo Fighters, The One
"Brains without treachery will get you nowhere."
Koori-tachi no Puraido (Pride of Ice)
nani ga hoshii? sore wo ubatte yaru kara
nani ga daiji? subete kowashite yaru kara
doko e yuku no? michi wo fusaide yaru kara
nani wo suru no? muda to muimi
sore kara...
What do you want? 'Cuz I'll snatch it away.
What's precious to you? 'Cuz I'll destroy it all.
Where are you going? 'Cuz I'll block your way.
What will you do? It's futile and meaningless
and so on...
ai to iu no? motare atte-iru koto wo
tomo to yobu no? kizu wo nadeau aite wo
nagekanai no? midare kitte'ru sekai wo
nani ga mitai? uso, uragiri
sore kara...
Do you call it love? When you can lean on something
Do you call him a friend? The partner who eases your wounds
Won't you grieve? For your shattered world
What do you want to see? Lies, betrayal
and so on...
aa Seiryuu no kumo
sora, nuritsukusu toki
mou asu wa nai
kako mo nai
ima sae mo
Ah, The clouds of the blue dragon.
When they finish painting the sky,
there will be no more tomorrow,
and no past either,
or even the present.
Baby baby sono mama horobeba ii
mujaki to iu tsumi wo seotte
Baby baby naraku ni shizunda nara
shimiru hazu yo
koori-tachi no PURAIDO
Baby baby You should perish the way you are,
bearing the crime called innocence.
Baby baby If you drowned in Hell,
it would stain
the pride of ice.
kiku to ii wa semete watashi no sasayaki
daku to ii wa mune ni maboroshi to shirazu
you to ii wa amai itsuwari no aji ni
kanjinai wa kurushimi sae
kore kara...
It'd be nice if you'd at least listen to my whisper.
It'd be nice if you'd hold me without illusions in your heart
It'd be nice if you'd get drunk with the taste of sweet lies
I won't even feel pain
from now on...
nani ga hoshii? sore wo ubatte yaru kara
nani ga daiji? subete kowashite yaru kara
doko e yuku no? michi wo fusaide yaru kara
nani wo shite mo muda to muimi
saigo wa...
What do you want? 'Cuz I'll snatch it away.
What's precious to you? 'Cuz I'll destroy it all.
Where are you going? 'Cuz I'll block your way.
No matter what you do, in the end, it's all
futile and meaningless...
aa Seiryuu no koe
kaze, yuregaseru toki
mou teki de wa naku
ano kata no
tenka dake
Ah, The voice of the blue dragon.
When it shakes the winds,
there won't be any more enemies.
Only his genius
will remain.
Baby baby kono mama shinde mo ii
gisei to iu yakume wo oete
Baby baby na mo naku kiete mo ii
shimobe toshite umarete-kita mono-tachi minna
Baby baby You can die the way you are.
Finish this business called sacrifice.
Baby baby You can vanish without a name.
Everyone's born to be a slave.
Baby baby wakari wa shinai, kesshite
aku ni tsukaetsukusu yorokobi
Baby baby nikumi uramareru hodo
takamaru no yo
koori-tachi no PURAIDO
Baby baby You'll never know
the joys of serving evil.
Baby baby As much as you loathe hatred,
it swells
the pride of ice.
"I can't help being a gorgeous fiend." --Lestat from Anne Rice's book Queen of the Damned
"We are the everlasting knowledge of what is wrong in a different perspective" –Ti
If you can't dominate...manipulate.
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."
"If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?"
"Hide your dagger behind your smile"
My mother told me to mend my wicked ways. But I never could sew... –Di
"Sticks and stones will bruise my bones but yours will break and shatter."
"God saves no one." ~ Genjou Sanzo Houshi (Gensomaden Saiyuki)
"Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence."
--Henrik Tikkanen
"Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls:
Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing;
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him
And makes me poor indeed."
--William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Othello", Act 3 scene 3
They say there's no rest for the wicked. No wonder I'm so damned tired. – Di
The wicked at heart probably know something.
Woody Allen (1935 - ), "Without Feathers"
There are lies, there are damn lies, and then there are statistics.
--Mark Twain
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
--Thomas Szasz
The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful
--Frederick Locker-Lampson
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
--David Brin
"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."
--George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Mrs. Warren's Profession" (1893) act II
"I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean."
--G. K. Chesterton
"It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly." --Oscar Wilde
"Do or do not. There is no try." --Yoda
"Pour que tout soit consomme, pour que je me sente moins seul, il me restait a souhaiter qu'il y ait beaucoup de spectateurs le jour de mon execution et qu'ils m'accueillent avec des cris de haine." -- from L'Etranger by Albert Camus
*the whole idea of the Ubermensch and the entire essay Beyond Good and Evil* -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.”
--Mo Udall
“I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.”
--Joseph Baretti, quoted in Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson
“Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.”
--Samuel Butler
"To light a candle is to cast a shadow..."
To say something or someone is good or bad seems so absolute...I like to live in the grey area inbetween.
Why does it feel so good to be bad?
If bad were a color it would be black. And I look great in black.
"May you get to Heaven an hour before the Devil knows you're dead." -- from "Road to Perdition"
"Damaged people are dangerous; they know they can survive." -- unknown
"Where there is light, there is darkness." -- Ramirez, of course! (from Skies of Arcadia)
"Things must be as they may"
--Henry V, Act ii. Sc.1
O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!
--Hamlet, I:5
After a Slytherin pats you on the back, you would be wise to check for a knife.
Slytherin: Sharp wit; Sharp mind; Sharp tongue
"Sarcasm: Just one more service we offer."
"Men at some time are masters of their fate"
--Julius Caesar, Act i, Sc.2.
LADY ASTOR: If you were my husband, Winston, I'd poison your coffee.
WINSTON CHURCHILL: If you were my wife, Nancy, I'd drink it.
Oo oo, I just remembered another one you might like:
"The proportion of persons capable of reading and writing is higher than ever; but the proportion of illiterates to literates is unchanged." --Alberto Moravia
"It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine."
--REM
"I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it."
-- Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card
"I knew fate had some devilment brewing there."
-- Homer's The Odyssey (book III, 179)
“The wrath of a god is hard to deal with."
-- Homer's Iliad (book V, 178)
"For as I detest the doorways of Death, I detest that man, who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks forth another."
-- Homer's Iliad (book IX, 312-313)
"Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a single honour, the brave with the weaklings. A man dies stil if he has done nothing, as one who has done much. Nothing is won for me, now that my heart has gone through its afflictions..."
-- Homer's Iliad (book IX, 318-321)
"Our minds are as the days are, dark or bright, blown over by the father of gods and men."
-- Homer's Odyssey (book XVIII, 171-172)
"Evil may be endured when our days pass in mourning, heavy-hearted, hard beset, if only sleep reign over nighttime, blanketing the world's good and evil from our eyes. But not for me: dreams too my demon sends me."
-- Homer's Odyssey (book XX, 94-98)
"Contempt was all you had for the gods who rule wide heaven, contempt for “what men say of you hereafter. Your last hour has come. You die in blood."
-- Homer's Odyssey (book XXII, 41-43)
"First, why I wish to join Slytherin. There is no easy, simple answer for this, but I’ll try my best. The one easy answer is that I think the Slytherin house can help me further my pursuits, it will offer me a chance to exercise that ambition that has slowly been quelled by living in an oppressively communal context. Slytherin is the place that allows all people to show their true self, the one most people deny. And the Slytherins are stronger for it.
Examine the traits of the Slytherin, and it will become clear. The Slytherin will not submit to another person unless it’s in their own best interest. They will not be tread upon or walked over. The Slytherin stands in the way of any project that will diminish her/his status. The Slytherin has a strong ego that does not take “no” for an answer. Or, more appropriately, the Slytherin works in such a way that the answer “no” is not even a possibility. The Slytherin does not need to apologize, for the Slytherin lives in such a way that it will never be required of him/her.
The other houses may do, but the Slytherin knows. What does it know? It knows how to play the game and how to use the system. The Hufflepuff may win by hard work, the Gryffendor by righteousness, the Ravenclaw by wit…but the Slytherin, my friends, wins by strategy. And a good strategy will always beat hard work, righteousness, and wit.
The Slytherin watches and sees weakness in others; the others watch and see only the Slytherin’s strength.
I could go on, but I think you understand me. So the question should not be “why do I want to join Slytherin?” Instead, it should be Why wouldn’t I want to join Slytherin?"
--Part one of Jack's entry speech
"He was neither the first nor the last ruler who decided a vice that generates revenue is not really so bad." (p. 39)
To support such a corrupt institution was like winking at the devil." (p. 43)
"What followed would have been comic had not so many people died." (p. 83)
“You’re a perfect devil, Lestat!” he was saying. “That’s what you are! You are the devil himself!”
“Yes, I know,” I said, loving to look at him, to see the anger pumping him so full of life. “And I love to hear you say it, Louis. I need to hear you say it. I don’t think anyone will ever say it quite like you do. Come on, say it again. I’m a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!”
--Taken from the book, Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice
"When you do things right, people won't be sure you did them at all."
-- from "Futurama" apparently
"In one irate essay, Benjamin Franklin asked his readers to consider just how the colonists might repay the leaders of Great Britain for shipping so many felons to America. He suggested that rattlesnakes might be the appropriate gift." (p.99)
"Believe me, everything looks like a noose if you stare at it long enough." (p.107)
"I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell."
"I knew what the old man felt, and pitied him, although I chuckled at heart."
"'I really am sorry about your father. It's not fair.'
Draco's eyes unfocused slightly, almost as if he was looking at something beyond Harry. 'That's true,' he said, 'but think how much worse it would be if life was fair, and all the awful things that happened to us happened because we actually deserve them. I for one take great comfort in the completely impersonal hostility of the universe.'
'Wow. That's a really depressing worldview, Malfoy.'
'Thanks. '"
--Cassandra Claire, Draco Sinister
"If this isn't the cherry of cruelty on top of the sundae of despair that has been my day so far, I don't know what it is."
--Malfoy, "Draco Sinister"
"Don't knock it -- my Dark Arts background just saved your hide, Potter. But don't worry, I'll be sure to call in your expertise as soon as we have to deal with, say, a small box of puppies."
--Malfoy, DS
"A Mai Tai. With an umbrella. And don't come back until you've got one. I don't care if you have to go to London for it. I'm the Heir of Slytherin and my whims must be served."
--Malfoy, DS
"But it would amuse me to do so. Of course, it would also amuse me to hang you both headfirst over a scorpion pit."
--Slytherin, DS
"...Happiness courts the light, so we deem the world is gay; but misery hides aloof, so we deem that misery there is none."
-- from "Bartleby the Scrivener" by Herman Melville
"'There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil; for to thee is this world given.'"
"The fiend in his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the breast of man."
"It was strange to see that the good shrank not from the wicked, nor were the sinners abashed by the saints."
"'Evil is the nature of mankind. Evil must be your only happiness. Welcome again, my children, to the communion of your race.'"
"Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."
-- from Thomas Paine's first installment of "The Crisis"
Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me-
The Carriage held but just Ourselves
And Immortality.
--Emily Dickinson
NOT in this world to see his face
Sounds long, until I read the place
Where this is said to be
But just the primer to a life
Unopened, rare, upon the shelf,
Clasped yet to him and me.
And yet, my primer suits me so
I would not choose a book to know
Than that, be sweeter wise;
Might some one else so learned be,
And leave me just my A B C,
Himself could have the skies.
--Emily Dickinson
"Sometimes we can't help what we do. Sometimes we do things in a moment of anger and maybe because things just aren't clicking right up here in our heads."
-- from an essay about the polygraph test
Buffy: Who are you?
Angel: Let's just say I'm a friend.
Buffy: Well, maybe I don't want a friend.
Angel: I never said I was yours.
"It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved."
--Niccolo Machiavelli (he's like our famous Slytherin, right?)
"Personality is born out of pain."
"Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions."
"...Sinfulness can lead to personal growth, sympathy, and understanding of others."
"...True evil arises from the close relationship between hate and love."
"This is a world that has already 'fallen,' that already knows sin..."
"...It is knowledge without compassion or human experience that is the greatest evil."
"Rush overheard a conversation between Benjamin Harrison of Virginia and Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts: 'I shall have a great advantage over you, Mr. Gerry,' said Harrison, 'when we are all hung for what we are now doing. From the size and weight of my body I shall die in a few minutes, but from the lightness of your body you will dance in the air an hour or two before you are dead.' Rush recalled that the comment 'procured a transient smile, but it was soon succeeded by the solemnity with which the whole business was conducted.'" (p.5)
"The word was uttered and heard as an insult that designated an inferior or subordinate people." (p.10)
that just reminded me of the word "mudblood" in the HP books
"[...] The vice president of the United States was...a gentleman...free to do anything he pleased as long as he did it with style." (p.21)
definitely reminded me of Draco. Or Lucius. Either one.
"But Burr's entire life had been a sermon on the capacity of the sagacious spider to lift himself out of hellish difficulties and spin webs that trapped others." (p.21)
"Happiness depends upon ourselves."
--Aristotle
"You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you."
--Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C.
"A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger."
--Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, circa 412 B.C.
DIVINE JUSTICE
(by C.S. Lewis)
God in His mercy made
The fixed pains of Hell.
That misery might be stayed,
God in His mercy made
Eternal bounds and bade
Its waves no further swell.
God in His mercy made
The fixed pains of Hell.
"But why did you smile when you shot me?"
"I'm just a friendly guy."
"see the devil may do as the devil may care
he loves none sweeter as sweeter the dare"
"...The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?"
--Jeremy Bentham
"No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artists is an unpardonable mannerism of style."
cui Pyrrhus: 'referes ergo haec et nuntius ibis
Pelidae genitori. illi mea tristia facta
degeneremque Neoptolemum narrare memento.
nunc morere.' hoc dicens altaria ad ipsa trementem
traxit et in multo lapsantem sanguine nati,
implicuitque comam laeua, dextraque coruscum
extulit ac lateri capulo tenus abdidit ensem.
"...las estrellas no podían ayudarles, porque las estrellas son muy frías y están muy altas..."
"Freedom is a tough thing to deal with. It's a hell of a lot easier to just live under a tyranny."
“Lestat, we’re partners in sin,” he said, smiling finally. “We’ve always been. We’ve both behaved badly, both been utterly disreputable. It’s what binds us together.”
Sonnet 119
What potions have I drunk of Siren tears,
Distill'd from limbecks foul as hell within,
Applying fears to hopes and hopes to fears,
Still losing when I saw myself to win!
What wretched errors hath my heart committed,
Whilst it hath thought itself so blessed never!
How have mine eyes out of their spheres been fitted
In the distraction of this madding fever!
O benefit of ill! now I find true
That better is by evil still made better;
And ruin'd love, when it is built anew,
Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.
So I return rebuked to my content
And gain by ill thrice more than I have spent.
--William Shakespeare
"It's better to be a world-class smart ass than a no-class dumb ass."
"If you can't be famous...be infamous." -- Chicago
"The grass may be greener on the other side, but I bet it rains more."
Random guy: Homer Simpson, you've been elected King of Mardi Gras!
Homer: Woo hoo! Good things do happen to bad people!
--The Simpsons!
"I was always a beautiful little devil."
--Lestat
"My name is Satan
and I Know you well.
You will come with me now
and spend eternity in hell."
Sympathy for the Devil
The Rolling Stones
Please allow me to introduce myself
I’m a man of wealth and taste
I’ve been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man’s soul and faith
And I was ’round when Jesus Christ
Had his moment of doubt and pain
Made damn sure that Pilate
Washed his hands and sealed his fate
Pleased to meet you
Won't you guess my name
But what’s puzzling you
Is the nature of my game
I stuck around St. Petersburg
When I saw it was a time for a change
Killed the czar and his ministers
Anastasia screamed in vain
I rode a tank
Held a general’s rank
When the blitzkrieg raged
And the bodies stank
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name
Ah, what’s puzzling you
Is the nature of my game
I watched with glee
While your kings and queens
Fought for ten decades
For the gods they made
I shouted out,
"who killed the Kennedys?"
When after all
It was you and me
Let me please introduce myself
I’m a man of wealth and taste
And I laid traps for troubadours
Who get killed before they reached bombay
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name
But what’s puzzling you
Is the nature of my game
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name
But what’s confusing you
Is just the nature of my game
Just as every cop is a criminal
And all the sinners saints
As heads is tails
Just call me Lucifer
’cause I’m in need of some restraint
So if you meet me
Have some courtesy
Have some sympathy, and some taste
Use all your well-learned politesse
Or I’ll lay your soul to waste
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name
But what’s puzzling you
Is the nature of my game
"'Austin, I'm physically attracted to him, but emotionally... nah.'
Slytherin. An air of mystery lingers about the very sound of that name. And this… this is the Slytherin common room in which you stand. If you are not of the serpentine family, I will be kind and let you go this once. Perhaps you have something… unduly favourable to say to us? Well, if you are a noble Slytherin, come with me. Ah, here we go. This, my friend, is a scroll… If you haven’t already figured it out, but you must have because we are intelligent people. Anyway, take this quill and ink to write down quotes, poems, lyrics, etc. in which you believe portrays Slytherin characteristics or just plain Slytherin-y.
--+ The Slytherin Gallery+--
“You are the night and the night alone understands you and enfolds you in its arms. One with the shadows. Without nightmare. And inexplicable peace.”
"The ends justifies the means"
"Evil is a point of view."
"They had forgotten the first lesson: that we must be powerful, beautiful, and without regret."
"It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways." -- Buddha
Battle not with monsters
lest ye become a monster
and if you gaze into the abyss
the abyss gazes into you.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. -- Hannah Arendt
I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth. -- Molly Ivins
"Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are billed to death, those who are worried to death and those who are bored to death." -- Winston Churchill
“Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.” --Lillian Hellman
“A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.” --H. L. Mencken
“Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.” -- Petrarch (1304 - 1374), De Remedies
“You're not the one but you're the only one
Who can make me feel like s***” -- Foo Fighters, The One
"Brains without treachery will get you nowhere."
Koori-tachi no Puraido (Pride of Ice)
nani ga hoshii? sore wo ubatte yaru kara
nani ga daiji? subete kowashite yaru kara
doko e yuku no? michi wo fusaide yaru kara
nani wo suru no? muda to muimi
sore kara...
What do you want? 'Cuz I'll snatch it away.
What's precious to you? 'Cuz I'll destroy it all.
Where are you going? 'Cuz I'll block your way.
What will you do? It's futile and meaningless
and so on...
ai to iu no? motare atte-iru koto wo
tomo to yobu no? kizu wo nadeau aite wo
nagekanai no? midare kitte'ru sekai wo
nani ga mitai? uso, uragiri
sore kara...
Do you call it love? When you can lean on something
Do you call him a friend? The partner who eases your wounds
Won't you grieve? For your shattered world
What do you want to see? Lies, betrayal
and so on...
aa Seiryuu no kumo
sora, nuritsukusu toki
mou asu wa nai
kako mo nai
ima sae mo
Ah, The clouds of the blue dragon.
When they finish painting the sky,
there will be no more tomorrow,
and no past either,
or even the present.
Baby baby sono mama horobeba ii
mujaki to iu tsumi wo seotte
Baby baby naraku ni shizunda nara
shimiru hazu yo
koori-tachi no PURAIDO
Baby baby You should perish the way you are,
bearing the crime called innocence.
Baby baby If you drowned in Hell,
it would stain
the pride of ice.
kiku to ii wa semete watashi no sasayaki
daku to ii wa mune ni maboroshi to shirazu
you to ii wa amai itsuwari no aji ni
kanjinai wa kurushimi sae
kore kara...
It'd be nice if you'd at least listen to my whisper.
It'd be nice if you'd hold me without illusions in your heart
It'd be nice if you'd get drunk with the taste of sweet lies
I won't even feel pain
from now on...
nani ga hoshii? sore wo ubatte yaru kara
nani ga daiji? subete kowashite yaru kara
doko e yuku no? michi wo fusaide yaru kara
nani wo shite mo muda to muimi
saigo wa...
What do you want? 'Cuz I'll snatch it away.
What's precious to you? 'Cuz I'll destroy it all.
Where are you going? 'Cuz I'll block your way.
No matter what you do, in the end, it's all
futile and meaningless...
aa Seiryuu no koe
kaze, yuregaseru toki
mou teki de wa naku
ano kata no
tenka dake
Ah, The voice of the blue dragon.
When it shakes the winds,
there won't be any more enemies.
Only his genius
will remain.
Baby baby kono mama shinde mo ii
gisei to iu yakume wo oete
Baby baby na mo naku kiete mo ii
shimobe toshite umarete-kita mono-tachi minna
Baby baby You can die the way you are.
Finish this business called sacrifice.
Baby baby You can vanish without a name.
Everyone's born to be a slave.
Baby baby wakari wa shinai, kesshite
aku ni tsukaetsukusu yorokobi
Baby baby nikumi uramareru hodo
takamaru no yo
koori-tachi no PURAIDO
Baby baby You'll never know
the joys of serving evil.
Baby baby As much as you loathe hatred,
it swells
the pride of ice.
"I can't help being a gorgeous fiend." --Lestat from Anne Rice's book Queen of the Damned
"We are the everlasting knowledge of what is wrong in a different perspective" –Ti
If you can't dominate...manipulate.
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."
"If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?"
"Hide your dagger behind your smile"
My mother told me to mend my wicked ways. But I never could sew... –Di
"Sticks and stones will bruise my bones but yours will break and shatter."
"God saves no one." ~ Genjou Sanzo Houshi (Gensomaden Saiyuki)
"Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence."
--Henrik Tikkanen
"Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls:
Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing;
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him
And makes me poor indeed."
--William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Othello", Act 3 scene 3
They say there's no rest for the wicked. No wonder I'm so damned tired. – Di
The wicked at heart probably know something.
Woody Allen (1935 - ), "Without Feathers"
There are lies, there are damn lies, and then there are statistics.
--Mark Twain
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
--Thomas Szasz
The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful
--Frederick Locker-Lampson
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
--David Brin
"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."
--George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Mrs. Warren's Profession" (1893) act II
"I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean."
--G. K. Chesterton
"It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly." --Oscar Wilde
"Do or do not. There is no try." --Yoda
"Pour que tout soit consomme, pour que je me sente moins seul, il me restait a souhaiter qu'il y ait beaucoup de spectateurs le jour de mon execution et qu'ils m'accueillent avec des cris de haine." -- from L'Etranger by Albert Camus
*the whole idea of the Ubermensch and the entire essay Beyond Good and Evil* -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.”
--Mo Udall
“I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.”
--Joseph Baretti, quoted in Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson
“Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.”
--Samuel Butler
"To light a candle is to cast a shadow..."
To say something or someone is good or bad seems so absolute...I like to live in the grey area inbetween.
Why does it feel so good to be bad?
If bad were a color it would be black. And I look great in black.
"May you get to Heaven an hour before the Devil knows you're dead." -- from "Road to Perdition"
"Damaged people are dangerous; they know they can survive." -- unknown
"Where there is light, there is darkness." -- Ramirez, of course! (from Skies of Arcadia)
"Things must be as they may"
--Henry V, Act ii. Sc.1
O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!
--Hamlet, I:5
After a Slytherin pats you on the back, you would be wise to check for a knife.
Slytherin: Sharp wit; Sharp mind; Sharp tongue
"Sarcasm: Just one more service we offer."
"Men at some time are masters of their fate"
--Julius Caesar, Act i, Sc.2.
LADY ASTOR: If you were my husband, Winston, I'd poison your coffee.
WINSTON CHURCHILL: If you were my wife, Nancy, I'd drink it.
Oo oo, I just remembered another one you might like:
"The proportion of persons capable of reading and writing is higher than ever; but the proportion of illiterates to literates is unchanged." --Alberto Moravia
"It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine."
--REM
"I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it."
-- Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card
"I knew fate had some devilment brewing there."
-- Homer's The Odyssey (book III, 179)
“The wrath of a god is hard to deal with."
-- Homer's Iliad (book V, 178)
"For as I detest the doorways of Death, I detest that man, who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks forth another."
-- Homer's Iliad (book IX, 312-313)
"Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a single honour, the brave with the weaklings. A man dies stil if he has done nothing, as one who has done much. Nothing is won for me, now that my heart has gone through its afflictions..."
-- Homer's Iliad (book IX, 318-321)
"Our minds are as the days are, dark or bright, blown over by the father of gods and men."
-- Homer's Odyssey (book XVIII, 171-172)
"Evil may be endured when our days pass in mourning, heavy-hearted, hard beset, if only sleep reign over nighttime, blanketing the world's good and evil from our eyes. But not for me: dreams too my demon sends me."
-- Homer's Odyssey (book XX, 94-98)
"Contempt was all you had for the gods who rule wide heaven, contempt for “what men say of you hereafter. Your last hour has come. You die in blood."
-- Homer's Odyssey (book XXII, 41-43)
"First, why I wish to join Slytherin. There is no easy, simple answer for this, but I’ll try my best. The one easy answer is that I think the Slytherin house can help me further my pursuits, it will offer me a chance to exercise that ambition that has slowly been quelled by living in an oppressively communal context. Slytherin is the place that allows all people to show their true self, the one most people deny. And the Slytherins are stronger for it.
Examine the traits of the Slytherin, and it will become clear. The Slytherin will not submit to another person unless it’s in their own best interest. They will not be tread upon or walked over. The Slytherin stands in the way of any project that will diminish her/his status. The Slytherin has a strong ego that does not take “no” for an answer. Or, more appropriately, the Slytherin works in such a way that the answer “no” is not even a possibility. The Slytherin does not need to apologize, for the Slytherin lives in such a way that it will never be required of him/her.
The other houses may do, but the Slytherin knows. What does it know? It knows how to play the game and how to use the system. The Hufflepuff may win by hard work, the Gryffendor by righteousness, the Ravenclaw by wit…but the Slytherin, my friends, wins by strategy. And a good strategy will always beat hard work, righteousness, and wit.
The Slytherin watches and sees weakness in others; the others watch and see only the Slytherin’s strength.
I could go on, but I think you understand me. So the question should not be “why do I want to join Slytherin?” Instead, it should be Why wouldn’t I want to join Slytherin?"
--Part one of Jack's entry speech
"He was neither the first nor the last ruler who decided a vice that generates revenue is not really so bad." (p. 39)
To support such a corrupt institution was like winking at the devil." (p. 43)
"What followed would have been comic had not so many people died." (p. 83)
“You’re a perfect devil, Lestat!” he was saying. “That’s what you are! You are the devil himself!”
“Yes, I know,” I said, loving to look at him, to see the anger pumping him so full of life. “And I love to hear you say it, Louis. I need to hear you say it. I don’t think anyone will ever say it quite like you do. Come on, say it again. I’m a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!”
--Taken from the book, Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice
"When you do things right, people won't be sure you did them at all."
-- from "Futurama" apparently
"In one irate essay, Benjamin Franklin asked his readers to consider just how the colonists might repay the leaders of Great Britain for shipping so many felons to America. He suggested that rattlesnakes might be the appropriate gift." (p.99)
"Believe me, everything looks like a noose if you stare at it long enough." (p.107)
"I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell."
"I knew what the old man felt, and pitied him, although I chuckled at heart."
"'I really am sorry about your father. It's not fair.'
Draco's eyes unfocused slightly, almost as if he was looking at something beyond Harry. 'That's true,' he said, 'but think how much worse it would be if life was fair, and all the awful things that happened to us happened because we actually deserve them. I for one take great comfort in the completely impersonal hostility of the universe.'
'Wow. That's a really depressing worldview, Malfoy.'
'Thanks. '"
--Cassandra Claire, Draco Sinister
"If this isn't the cherry of cruelty on top of the sundae of despair that has been my day so far, I don't know what it is."
--Malfoy, "Draco Sinister"
"Don't knock it -- my Dark Arts background just saved your hide, Potter. But don't worry, I'll be sure to call in your expertise as soon as we have to deal with, say, a small box of puppies."
--Malfoy, DS
"A Mai Tai. With an umbrella. And don't come back until you've got one. I don't care if you have to go to London for it. I'm the Heir of Slytherin and my whims must be served."
--Malfoy, DS
"But it would amuse me to do so. Of course, it would also amuse me to hang you both headfirst over a scorpion pit."
--Slytherin, DS
"...Happiness courts the light, so we deem the world is gay; but misery hides aloof, so we deem that misery there is none."
-- from "Bartleby the Scrivener" by Herman Melville
"'There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil; for to thee is this world given.'"
"The fiend in his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the breast of man."
"It was strange to see that the good shrank not from the wicked, nor were the sinners abashed by the saints."
"'Evil is the nature of mankind. Evil must be your only happiness. Welcome again, my children, to the communion of your race.'"
"Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."
-- from Thomas Paine's first installment of "The Crisis"
Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me-
The Carriage held but just Ourselves
And Immortality.
--Emily Dickinson
NOT in this world to see his face
Sounds long, until I read the place
Where this is said to be
But just the primer to a life
Unopened, rare, upon the shelf,
Clasped yet to him and me.
And yet, my primer suits me so
I would not choose a book to know
Than that, be sweeter wise;
Might some one else so learned be,
And leave me just my A B C,
Himself could have the skies.
--Emily Dickinson
"Sometimes we can't help what we do. Sometimes we do things in a moment of anger and maybe because things just aren't clicking right up here in our heads."
-- from an essay about the polygraph test
Buffy: Who are you?
Angel: Let's just say I'm a friend.
Buffy: Well, maybe I don't want a friend.
Angel: I never said I was yours.
"It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved."
--Niccolo Machiavelli (he's like our famous Slytherin, right?)
"Personality is born out of pain."
"Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions."
"...Sinfulness can lead to personal growth, sympathy, and understanding of others."
"...True evil arises from the close relationship between hate and love."
"This is a world that has already 'fallen,' that already knows sin..."
"...It is knowledge without compassion or human experience that is the greatest evil."
"Rush overheard a conversation between Benjamin Harrison of Virginia and Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts: 'I shall have a great advantage over you, Mr. Gerry,' said Harrison, 'when we are all hung for what we are now doing. From the size and weight of my body I shall die in a few minutes, but from the lightness of your body you will dance in the air an hour or two before you are dead.' Rush recalled that the comment 'procured a transient smile, but it was soon succeeded by the solemnity with which the whole business was conducted.'" (p.5)
"The word was uttered and heard as an insult that designated an inferior or subordinate people." (p.10)
that just reminded me of the word "mudblood" in the HP books
"[...] The vice president of the United States was...a gentleman...free to do anything he pleased as long as he did it with style." (p.21)
definitely reminded me of Draco. Or Lucius. Either one.
"But Burr's entire life had been a sermon on the capacity of the sagacious spider to lift himself out of hellish difficulties and spin webs that trapped others." (p.21)
"Happiness depends upon ourselves."
--Aristotle
"You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you."
--Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C.
"A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger."
--Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, circa 412 B.C.
DIVINE JUSTICE
(by C.S. Lewis)
God in His mercy made
The fixed pains of Hell.
That misery might be stayed,
God in His mercy made
Eternal bounds and bade
Its waves no further swell.
God in His mercy made
The fixed pains of Hell.
"But why did you smile when you shot me?"
"I'm just a friendly guy."
"see the devil may do as the devil may care
he loves none sweeter as sweeter the dare"
"...The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?"
--Jeremy Bentham
"No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artists is an unpardonable mannerism of style."
cui Pyrrhus: 'referes ergo haec et nuntius ibis
Pelidae genitori. illi mea tristia facta
degeneremque Neoptolemum narrare memento.
nunc morere.' hoc dicens altaria ad ipsa trementem
traxit et in multo lapsantem sanguine nati,
implicuitque comam laeua, dextraque coruscum
extulit ac lateri capulo tenus abdidit ensem.
"...las estrellas no podían ayudarles, porque las estrellas son muy frías y están muy altas..."
"Freedom is a tough thing to deal with. It's a hell of a lot easier to just live under a tyranny."
“Lestat, we’re partners in sin,” he said, smiling finally. “We’ve always been. We’ve both behaved badly, both been utterly disreputable. It’s what binds us together.”
Sonnet 119
What potions have I drunk of Siren tears,
Distill'd from limbecks foul as hell within,
Applying fears to hopes and hopes to fears,
Still losing when I saw myself to win!
What wretched errors hath my heart committed,
Whilst it hath thought itself so blessed never!
How have mine eyes out of their spheres been fitted
In the distraction of this madding fever!
O benefit of ill! now I find true
That better is by evil still made better;
And ruin'd love, when it is built anew,
Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.
So I return rebuked to my content
And gain by ill thrice more than I have spent.
--William Shakespeare
"It's better to be a world-class smart ass than a no-class dumb ass."
"If you can't be famous...be infamous." -- Chicago
"The grass may be greener on the other side, but I bet it rains more."
Random guy: Homer Simpson, you've been elected King of Mardi Gras!
Homer: Woo hoo! Good things do happen to bad people!
--The Simpsons!
"I was always a beautiful little devil."
--Lestat
"My name is Satan
and I Know you well.
You will come with me now
and spend eternity in hell."
Sympathy for the Devil
The Rolling Stones
Please allow me to introduce myself
I’m a man of wealth and taste
I’ve been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man’s soul and faith
And I was ’round when Jesus Christ
Had his moment of doubt and pain
Made damn sure that Pilate
Washed his hands and sealed his fate
Pleased to meet you
Won't you guess my name
But what’s puzzling you
Is the nature of my game
I stuck around St. Petersburg
When I saw it was a time for a change
Killed the czar and his ministers
Anastasia screamed in vain
I rode a tank
Held a general’s rank
When the blitzkrieg raged
And the bodies stank
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name
Ah, what’s puzzling you
Is the nature of my game
I watched with glee
While your kings and queens
Fought for ten decades
For the gods they made
I shouted out,
"who killed the Kennedys?"
When after all
It was you and me
Let me please introduce myself
I’m a man of wealth and taste
And I laid traps for troubadours
Who get killed before they reached bombay
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name
But what’s puzzling you
Is the nature of my game
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name
But what’s confusing you
Is just the nature of my game
Just as every cop is a criminal
And all the sinners saints
As heads is tails
Just call me Lucifer
’cause I’m in need of some restraint
So if you meet me
Have some courtesy
Have some sympathy, and some taste
Use all your well-learned politesse
Or I’ll lay your soul to waste
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name
But what’s puzzling you
Is the nature of my game
"'Austin, I'm physically attracted to him, but emotionally... nah.'