Daggers Quote by Ambrose Bierce

Misanthropy is a suit of armor lined with thorns.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

A soldier has one item that cannot be neglected. His feet. They are his wheels, his mechanised warfare.

— Leon Uris

“the room and studied the positions of the inert, twisted, blood-soaked bodies; they had become one with the lush cream-coloured carpet, which resembled a…

— Bill Carson

The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin.

— Alexander Cockburn

“The enemy is not the person standing before you, sword in hand. It is the person standing next to you with a dagger concealed…

— Paulo Coelho

For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely…

— Miguel de Cervantes

There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty.…

— Victor Hugo

“To such atrocities may men be driven who use the dagger for a cross, and upon whose mind the most trivial event makes a…

— Victor Hugo

“There is no glory in being a featherbed soldier, a man bedecked with gorgeous medals, but never beautified by a scar, or ennobled by…

— Charles Spurgeon

A thorough: miser must possess considerable strength of character to bear the self-denial imposed by his penuriousness. Equal sacrifices, endured voluntarily in a better…

— William Benton Clulow

And it was as if fate had betrayed the soldier. In death it exposed to his enemies that poverty which in life he had…

— Stephen Crane

He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference…

— Anonymous