Knife Quotes
720 quotes by 565 authors
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As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had…
— Mario Batali
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I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.
— Louise Brooks
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I think if you would have cut Houdini with a knife, blood wouldn't come out, PR would.
— Criss Angel
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If any man says he hates war more than I do, he better have a knife, that's all I have to say.
— Jack Handey
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The knives in my apartment are only sharp enough to open envelopes with. Cutting a slice of coarse bread is on the borderline of their…
— Peter Høeg
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In golf, driving is a game of free-swinging muscle control, while putting is something like performing eye surgery and using a bread knife for a…
— Tommy Bolt
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Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order; Bleak blows the blast-your hat has got a hole…
— George Canning
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Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, a south wind, not an east wind.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I can't turn around without hearing about some 'civil rights advance'! White people seem to think the black ought to be shouting 'hallelujah'! Four hundred…
— Malcolm X
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I have heard of many going astray even in the village streets, when the darkness was so thick you could cut it with a knife,…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
— Banksy
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Your afflictions may only prove that you are more immediately under the Father's hand. There is no time that the patient is such an object…
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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I applied streaks and blobs of colors onto the canvas with a palette knife, and I made them sing with all the intensity I could...
— Wassily Kandinsky
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1,2,3, I'm at the Chelsey Hotel, like, Sid and Nancy, with knife, and two grams of candy
— Yelawolf
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Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands of a well-balanced adult it is an instrument for good of inestimable value; but in the hands…
— Leo Baekeland
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Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use…
— Wernher von Braun
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To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to forget breakfast instantly.…
— Charles Dickens
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Cut if you will with sleep's dull knife, the years from off your life, my friend! the years that death takes off my life, he'll…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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A gossip is someone who's the knife of the party.
— Morris Bender
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Going into a game against Lew Alcindor [later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar] is like going into a knife fight and finding there's no blade in your handle.
— Bill Fitch
Who Wrote These Knife Quotes
565 authors contributed a total of 720 Knife Quotes, led by these top contributors: