"Infidel" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... The Armenians resisted with at first some small success, upon which Abdul Hamid reinforced the Kurds with regular troops, and caused it to be proclaimed that this was a war of Moslems against the infidel, a Holy War. Moslem fanaticism, ever smouldering and ready to burst into flames, blazed high, and a fury of massacres broke forth against all Armenians, east and west, north and south. The streets of Constantinople ran with their blood, and before Abdul Hamid was ...
— Crescent and Iron Cross • E. F. Benson
... concluded with a challenge to the infidel, at the end of which it was Eustacia's duty to enter as the Turkish Knight. She, with the rest who were not yet on, had hitherto remained in the moonlight which streamed under the porch. With no apparent effort or ...
— The Return of the Native • Thomas Hardy
... laughable things in the world is the attempt some simple critics make to turn Nietzsche into an ordinary "Honest Infidel," a kind of poetic Bradlaugh-Ingersoll, offering to humanity the profound discovery that there is no God, and that when we die, we die! The absurdity is made complete when this naive, revivified "Pagan" is made to assure ...
— Visions and Revisions - A Book of Literary Devotions • John Cowper Powys
... know what you're talking about! And, alas! you are half an infidel, I know, for you ...
— The Missing Bride • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth
... have played the Infidel, If, as the fated Pitcher to the Well, Too oft to Love's empyrean Font I stray, To fall, at ...
— The Rubaiyat of a Bachelor • Helen Rowland
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