Scythes Quotes

25 Scythes quotes by 19 unique authors

Before falling to the scythe the weeds enjoy a little breeze. — Peter Levitt
I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that… — Christopher Hitchens
A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass. — Hester Lynch Piozzi
Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered by the Clock of the Imagination, however, can refuse his… — Federico Fellini
The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings.… — James Shirley
Let us award a just, a brilliant homage to those rare men whom nature has endowed with the precious privilege of arranging a thousand isolated… — Francois Arago
Only the first swath cut by the scythe is difficult. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover, Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, Conceives by idleness, and… — William Shakespeare
In literature and in art, alike, this gloomy fashion of regarding Death has been characteristic of Christianity. Death has been painted as a skeleton grasping… — Annie Besant
Occupation is the scythe of time. — Napoleon Bonaparte
A halo surrounded the grim reaper nun, Sister Maria. (By the way-I like this human idea of the grim reaper. I like the scythe. It… — Markus Zusak
Some things are fairly obvious when it's a seven-foot skeleton with a scythe telling you them — Terry Pratchett
I am alone on this road strewn with bones and bordered by ruins! Angels have their brothers, and demons have their infernal companions. Yet I… — Gustave Flaubert
A SMALL PIECE OF TRUTH I do not carry a sickle or scythe. I only wear a hooded black robe when it's cold. And I… — Markus Zusak
In one was, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often… — Christopher Hitchens
Uh, yeah, I do. The scythe was a little tricky at first, but—much like golf—turns out it’s all in the swing. — Rachel Vincent
So what does Tod look like? Whitewashed skeleton skulking around in a black cape and hood? Carrying a scythe? 'Cause I'm thinking that would cause… — Rachel Vincent
Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know… — Terry Pratchett
I have terrible nightmares, you know. Every night when I come home from a long day’s dying, I take off my skin and lay it… — Catherynne M. Valente
Returning his pen to its holder, he told us, 'I will have him gutted with that scythe. I will hang him by his own intestines.'… — Patrick deWitt
There are times when the air that floats between mortals becomes, in its stillness and silence, as cruel as the edge of a scythe. — Mervyn Peake
Nothing 'gainst Times scythe can make defence. — William Shakespeare
You talk of the scythe of Time, and the tooth of Time: I tell you, Time is scytheless and toothless; it is we who gnaw… — John Ruskin
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own. — H.G. Wells
Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Who Wrote These Scythes Quotes

19 authors contributed a total of 25 Scythes Quotes as follows: