Fear Quote by John Cheever

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. Courage tastes of blood. Stand up straight. Admire the world.…

— John Cheever

Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Let's hope they make out as well as I did.

— Bobby Darin

Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery.

— William Shakespeare

Leaves like rusty tin for the desolate mind that has seen the end- the barest glimmerings. Leaves aswirl with gulls made wild by winter.

— Giorgos Seferis

“I knew then the taste of true fear. It tastes of dark places deep in your stomach and holds you by the neck.”

— Franny Billingsley

So it's happened, I kept thinking, you're in the middle of a story exactly as you've always wanted, and it's horrible. Fear tastes quite…

— Cornelia Funke

“Taste his fear. It tastes just like champagne. Cold and crisp and absolutely without sweetness.”

— Janet Fitch

“Tobiah was Black Knife.”

— Jodi Meadows

“Power is like a knife. It can be used to cut bread to share with your neighbor or stab you in the back.”

— Sadiqua Hamdan

“There was never a good knife made of bad steel ”

— Walter Isaacson

“Sharp like a spoon, that one. Anyway,”

— Ethan Cross

“If you are a big eater, put a knife to your throat,”

— Al Fike