An insulting telegram is a barbed wire.

“At the gates, prickly rolls of barbed wire sagged with middle-aged disappointment.”

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

I put a barbed wire fence around my heart, baby just to keep you out.

— Kellie Pickler

“Police officers put up barbed wire around their hearts to protect them.”

— Randy Sutton

“basketball courts ringed with barbed-wire fence.”

— Donna Tartt

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

— Ronald Reagan

“And you, Bloss, may shove it ... sideways ... with barbed wire wrapped around it.”

— McKevett

“Anything outside the barbed wire became remote - out of reach and, in a way, unreal. The events and the people outside, all the…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“This is my barbed wire dress. It protects the property but doesn't hide the view.”

— Candy Darling

If in barbed wire things can bloom, why couldn't I? I will not die, I will not die.

— Friedl And The Children Of Terezin

Stop creating walls around yourself. Put barbed wires instead. Allow them to see you. Talk to you. Just don't let them get any closer.

— Melchor Lim

“Eric has said that I carry close to my chest a ball of barbed wire that I sometimes throw at other people.”

— Weike Wang

All anyone really needs to know about barbed wire is that it can tear the arse out of your trousers, give a cow a…

— Billy Connolly

It is Nixon himself who represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character that almost every country in the world…

— Hunter S. Thompson

I'm not good at love. I'm like a barbed creature. I push everyone I love away.

— Kristin Cashore

A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

— Sophia Loren