Knife Quotes

720 Knife quotes by 522 unique authors

I was young I was so young it hurt like a knife inside because there was no alternative except to hide as long as possible---… — Charles Bukowski
The intentions of a tool are what it does. A hammer intends to strike, a vise intends to hold fast, a lever intends to lift.… — Philip Pullman
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher's knife, as their fat arses… — Bertolt Brecht
The smile was so painfully swift and fleeting that it was like the flash of a knife. — Henry Miller
You can't save everybody. In fact, there are days when I think you can't save anyone. Each person has to save himself first, then you… — Laurell K. Hamilton
I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at… — Zora Neale Hurston
When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and "withered, wrinkled, and loathsome… — Oscar Wilde
So he was deserted. The whole world was clamouring: Kill yourself, kill yourself, for our sakes. But why should he kill himself for their sakes?… — Virginia Woolf
O gouvernment francais, I think it was not very clever of You to put this terrible doll in La Ferte; for when Governments are found… — E E Cummings
She just laughed in his face and told him she'd sooner crawl in a bed with his father's leeches before she'd crawl in one with… — George R. R. Martin
Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself. — Franz Kafka
I'll tell you what justice is. Justice is a knee in the gut from the floor on the chin at night sneaky with a knife… — Joseph Heller
Are you angry? Punch a pillow. Was it satisfying? Not hardly. These days people are too angry for punching. What you might try is stabbing.… — Miranda July
Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation! — Unknown Author
Along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradoxâ€”the single most worthy path of the fearless mind . . . . — Yevgeny Zamyatin
I wanted to tell them that, in Kabul, we snapped a tree branch and used it as a credit card. Hassan and I would take… — Khaled Hosseini
She had no mercy. He looked at her neck and thought how he would like to jab it with the knife he had for his… — W. Somerset Maugham
Something was wrong with Luke," Annabeth muttered, poking at the fire with her knife. "Did you notice the way he was acting?" "He looked pretty… — Rick Riordan
You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress ... No… — Malcolm X
Give me a good sharp knife and a good sharp cheese and Iâ€™m a happy man. — George R. R. Martin

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522 authors contributed a total of 720 Knife Quotes, led by these top contributors: