1.
Aphrodite had the beauty; Zeus had the thunderbolts. Everyone loved Aphrodite, but everyone listened to Zeus.
Esther M. Friesner
2.
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
Guy de Maupassant
3.
Handel understands effect better than any of us -- when he chooses, he strikes like a thunderbolt.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
4.
It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.
Voltaire
5.
When struck by a thunderbolt it is unnecessary to consult the Book of Dates as to the precise meaning of the omen.
Ernest Bramah
6.
The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
Lucretius
10.
There was nothing ordinary about Hank Gathers. He was a walking thunderbolt.
Paul Westhead
11.
Dead, hung up indoors, the kingfisher
will not indicate a favoring wind,
or avert the thunderbolt.
Charles Olson