Assassins Quotes

• War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Peace, War, Games

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.29, Wordsworth Editions

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• If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

  Indira Gandhi

  Fear, Dying, Violence

  Indira Gandhi, Pupul Jayakar (1986). “What I am”

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• When one consorts with assassins, one must expect to dance along the edge of a knife once or twice.

  R.L. LaFevers

  Knives, Edges

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• Assassins did have a certain code, after all. It was dishonorable to kill someone if you weren't being paid.

  Terry Pratchett

  Certain, Code, Paid

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• One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.

  Jean Rostand

  Military, Men, Conqueror

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• Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

  Herbert Hoover

  Silence, Presidential, Acting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Assassin?...that sounds so exotic...i was just a murderer

  Richard Kuklinski

  Sound, Exotic, Murderer

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• Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.

  Victor Kiam

  Inspirational, Procrastination, Opportunity

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• The greatest assassin of life is haste, the desire to reach things before the right time which means overreaching them.

  Juan Ramon Jimenez

  Time, Mean, Desire

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• Sin is the assassin of the soul.

  John Vianney

  Soul, Sin

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• Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries; they are just good enough to be assassins.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Revolutionary, Enough, Be Good

  "Dirty Hands". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 5, sc. 3, 1948.

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• Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Musical, Harmony, Instruments

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.7, 谷月社

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• All assassins had a full-length mirror in their rooms, because it would be a terrible insult to anyone to kill them when you were badly dressed.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mirrors, Pyramids, Insulting

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Pyramids: A Novel of Discworld”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• I might be an assassin, but never let it be said I wasn't as gracious a hostess as the next gal.

  Jennifer Estep

  Might, Next, Gals

  Jennifer Estep (2010). “Spider's Bite: An Elemental Assassin Book”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• Assassins and presidents invite the same basic question: Just who do you think you are?

  Sarah Vowell

  Thinking, President, Invites

  Sarah Vowell (2005). “Assassination Vacation”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Thinking, Fans, Doe

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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 assassin

  Tryon Edwards

  Brother, Character, Body

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.885, Ravenio Books

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• When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.

  Robin Hobb

  Men, Remember You, Remembers You

  "Assasin's Apprentice". Book by Robin Hobb, 1995.

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• I thought the Secret Service would protect me from the press, but they were at my house to protect me from assassins with guns, not with assassins with pencils.

  Michael Reagan

  Gun, House, Secret

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• A diary is an assassin's cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen.

  William Soutar

  Diaries, Cloaks, Comrade

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• What you hope for Is that at some point of the pointless journey, Indoors or out, and when you least expect it, Right in the middle of your stride, like that, So neatly that you never feel a thing, The kind assassin Sleep will draw a bead And blow your brains out.

  Richard Wilbur

  Sleep, Blow, Journey

  Richard Wilbur (2006). “Collected Poems 1943-2004”, p.237, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In the year 1090, there was founded in Persia the religious and military order of the Assassins, whose history is one of cruelty, barbarity, and murder, and for good reason: the members were confirmed users of hashish, or marihuana, and it is from the Arabs' 'hashashin' that we have the English word 'assassin.'

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Religious, Military, Order

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• How to throw assassins off balance: cry in front of them.

  Leah Cypess

  Balance, Cry, Fronts

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• What they're not ready for is guys like you and I and Nails and all the other gnarly gnarlingtons in my life, that we are high priests, Vatican assassin warlocks. Boom. Print that, people. See where that goes.

  Charlie Sheen

  Gnarly, People, Guy

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• Political discourse has been reduced to "Where's the beef?" "Read my lips," and "Make my day." Where are the assassins when we really need them?

  George Carlin

  Political, Beef, Needs

  George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.193, Hachette UK

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