Thunderbolts Quotations

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

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

Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt.

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

When struck by a thunderbolt it is unnecessary to consult the Book of Dates as to the precise meaning of the omen.

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

It hit me like a thunderbolt!

Handel understands effect better than any of us -- when he chooses, he strikes like a thunderbolt.

Some innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt.