"MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare……" — Ambrose Bierce

More Dagger Quotes

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• The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide. — Margaret Cho
• Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh. — Emile M. Cioran
• The dagger plunged in the name of freedom is plunged into the breast of freedom. — Jose Marti
• Science affects the average man and woman in two ways already. He or she benefits by its application driving a… — John B. S. Haldane
• The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth. — William Shakespeare
• The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural… — H.G. Wells
• The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with… — Tryon Edwards
• A man renowned for repartee will seldom scruple to make free with friendship's finest feeling, will thrust a dagger at… — William Cowper
• Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? — William Shakespeare
• I slew him-this right hand struck the dagger to his heart. My deeds slew Christ. Alas! I slew my best… — Charles Spurgeon
• I 'm weary of conjectures,-this must end 'em. Thus am I doubly armed: my death and life, My bane and… — Joseph Addison

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