Sex is something I really don't understand too hot.You never know where the hell you are. I keep making up these sex rules for myself, and then I break them right away.

-Salinger,J(erome) D(avid)
The Catcher in the Rye, ch.9.

L'Enfer, c'est les Autres. Hell is other people.

-Sartre,Jean-Paul
  Huis clos.

But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  JohnTanner. Man and Superman, act1.

Hell isfull of musical amateurs: music isthebrandyofthe damned.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  DonJuan to the Devil. Man and Superman, act 3.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Parents and Children.

Hell is a city much like Londonö A populous and smoky city.

-Shelley, Percy Bysshe
  'Peter Bell theThird'pt.3, stanza1.

There is manya boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.

-Sherman,WilliamTecumseh
  Speech at Columbus, Ohio,11 Aug. Quoted in Lloyd Lewis Sherman Fighting Prophet (1932).

An admiral red, whose only notion, (A butterfly poised on a pigtailed ocean) Is of the peruked sea whose swell Breaks on the flowerless rocks of Hell.

-Sitwell, Dame Edith Louisa
  Fa c° ade,'En Famille'.

In ten thousand years the Sierras Will be dryand dead, home of the scorpion. Ice-scratched slabs and bent trees. No paradise, no fall, Only the weathering land The wheeling sky, Man, with his Satan Scouring the chaos of the mind. Oh Hell!

-Snyder, Gary Sherman
  Riprap,'Milton By Firelight (Piute Creek, August1955)'.

Most glorious Lord of Life! that, on this day, Didst makeThy triumph over death and sin; And having harrowed hell, didst bring away Captivity thence captive, us to win:

-Spenser, Edmund
  Amoretti, sonnet 68.

Most glorious Lord of Life! that, on this day, Didst makeThy triumph over death and sin; And having harrowed hell, didst bring away Captivity thence captive, us to win:

-Spenser, Edmund
  Amoretti, sonnet 68.

Have I a wife? Bedam I have! But we was badly mated. Ihit hera greatclout onenight And now we'reseparated. And mornin's going to me work I meets her on the quay: 'Good mornin'to you, ma'am!'says I,'To hell with ye!' says she.

-Strong, L(eonard) A(lfred) G(eorge)
Dublin Days,'The Brewer's Man'.

Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell Rode the six hundred.

-Tennyson
  'The Charge of the Light Brigade', l.24^6.

The City is of Night, but not of Sleep; There sweet Sleep is not for the weary brain; The pitiless hours like years and ages creep, A night seems termless hell.

-Thomson,James pseudonym 'BV',ByssheVanolis
  The City of Dreadful Night, pt.1.

When I first came to Washington, for the first six months I wondered how the hell I ever got here. For the next six months, I wondered how the hell the rest of them ever got here.

-Truman, Harry S
  Speech, Apr.

I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it is hell.

-Truman, Harry S
  Interview, in Look, 3 Apr.

: What do you think of marriage? : I take't, as those that deny purgatory, It locally contains or heaven, or hell; There's no third place in't.

-Webster,John
     DUCHESSANTONIO1623  The Duchess of Malfi, act1, sc.2.

Oh, yes, thy sins Do run before thee to fetch fire from hell, To light thee thither.

-Webster,John
  TheWhite Devil, act 5, sc.6.

Making a picture with Marilyn Monroe was like going to the dentist. It was hell at thetime, but after it was all over it was wonderful.

-Wilder, Billy (Samuel)
Quoted in Doug McClelland Star Speak (1987).