Sibyl Quotes

Religion is a wizard, a sibyl. She faces the wreck of worlds, and prophesies restoration. She faces a sky blood-red with sunset colours that deepen into darkness, and prophesies dawn. She faces death, and prophesies life. (Felix Adler)
When Croft's "Life of Dr. Young" was spoken of as a good imitation of Dr. Johnson's style, "No, no," said he, "it is not a good imitation of Johnson; it has all his pomp without his force; it has all the nodosities of the oak, without its strength; it has all the contortions of the sibyl, without the inspiration." View quote
Edmund Burke
His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion. View quote
Oscar Wilde
For I myself saw the Sibyl indeed at Cumae with my own eyes hanging in a jar; and when the boys used to say to her, "Sibyl, what do you want?" View quote
Petronius
Sacred Sibyl!” I cried. "Madam, there is something wrong with your midsection!” The woman stopped, mystified, and looked down at her hugely swollen belly. "Well, I'm seven months pregnant. View quote
Rick Riordan
It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration. View quote
Edmund Burke
You, who know all the secrets of life, tell me how to charm Sibyl Vane to love me! I want to make Romeo jealous, I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The hostess is our modern Sibyl. She is a witch who lays her guests under a spell. View quote
Virginia Woolf