Dagger Quotes
79 quotes by 59 authors
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The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide.
— Margaret Cho
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Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.
— Emile M. Cioran
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The dagger plunged in the name of freedom is plunged into the breast of freedom.
— Jose Marti
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Science affects the average man and woman in two ways already. He or she benefits by its application driving a motor-car or omnibus instead of…
— John B. S. Haldane
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The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.
— William Shakespeare
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The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face. It…
— H.G. Wells
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The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with the other the tongue. The…
— Tryon Edwards
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A man renowned for repartee will seldom scruple to make free with friendship's finest feeling, will thrust a dagger at your breast, and say he…
— William Cowper
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Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
— William Shakespeare
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I slew him-this right hand struck the dagger to his heart. My deeds slew Christ. Alas! I slew my best beloved; I killed him who…
— Charles Spurgeon
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I 'm weary of conjectures,-this must end 'em. Thus am I doubly armed: my death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me:…
— Joseph Addison
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To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the…
— Tryon Edwards
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Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a…
— Samuel Johnson
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Having a large amount of leverage is like driving a car with a dagger on the steering wheel pointed at your heart. If you do…
— Warren Buffett
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If I had a brother who had been murdered, what would you think of me if I...daily consorted with the assassin who drove the dagger…
— Charles Spurgeon
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The justification for those actions was that we were living in a very hard, predatory, cloak-and-dagger world and that the only way to deal with…
— Norman Cousins
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The samurais lived with death constantly. They wore a short dagger to take their own life if need be. At any moment they might have…
— Frederick Lenz
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Word - that invisible dagger.
— Emile M. Cioran
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MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal.
— Ambrose Bierce
Who Wrote These Dagger Quotes
59 authors contributed a total of 79 Dagger Quotes, led by these top contributors: