Daggers Quotes

• He sharpened his flaws and disappointments into daggers.

  Pete Wentz

  Disappointment, Flaws

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• Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Mouths, Bigger

  William Shakespeare (1767). “The Works of Shakespeare: in Eight Volumes”, p.295

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• Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living.

  Douglas Malloch

  Courage, Steel, Relentless

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• I dropped my pants in a tattoo parlor in Amsterdam. I woke up in a waterbed with this funky-looking dragon with a blue tongue on my hip. I realized I made a mistake, so a few months later I got a cross to cover it. When my pants hang low, it looks like I'm wearing a dagger!

  Angelina Jolie

  Tattoo, Mistake, Blue

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• Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?

  William Shakespeare

  Character, Hands, Play

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 1, l. 33

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• The soul, secured in her existence, smiles
  At the drawn dagger, and defies its point.

  Joseph Addison

  Courage, Soul, Existence

  Joseph Addison (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.221

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• Is this a dagger which I see before me,
  The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
  I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
  Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
  To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
  A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
  Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Memorable, Sight

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 1, l. 33

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• There's daggers in men's smiles.

  William Shakespeare

  Men

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [146]

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• I will speak daggers to her, but use none.

  William Shakespeare

  Use, Hamlet And Ophelia, Speak

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [420]

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• On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers. -Old Seanchan saying

  Robert Jordan

  Height, Path

  Robert Jordan, Teresa Patterson (2017). “The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time”, p.204, Tor Books

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• Word - that invisible dagger.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Invisible

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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• A man renowned for repartee will seldom scruple to make free with friendship's finest feeling, will thrust a dagger at your breast, and say he wounded you in jest, by way of balm for healing.

  William Cowper

  Healing, Men, Feelings

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.136

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• We are not wounded so deeply when betrayed by the things we hope for as when betrayed by things we try our best to despise. In such betrayal comes the dagger in the back.

  Yukio Mishima

  Betrayal, Trying, Betrayed

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• People who live in an age of corruption are witty and slanderous; they know that there are other kinds of murder than by dagger or assault; they also know that whatever is well said is believed.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Witty, People, Age

  "The Gay Science". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Sec. 23, 1882.

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• Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands and an infinite scorn in our hearts.

  Benito Mussolini

  Heart, Hands, Leader

  "The Great Quotations" by George Seldes, (p. 349), 1966.

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• The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.

  Lord Acton

  Strong, Men, Weak Man

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• ...but hope seduces like a silver tongue, double-edged like a dagger that cuts both ways.

  Charlie Fletcher

  Cutting, Way, Tongue

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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, Assassins

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

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• Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead are but as pictures: ‘tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Eye, Giving

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 52

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• The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Hands, World

  Address at University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va., 10 June 1940

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• Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Brain, Mind

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 1, l. 33

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• Fear is a dagger with which hypocrisy assassinates the soul.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Fear, Hypocrisy, Soul

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.250, Library of Alexandria

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• Thou you thrust your dagger at my eye, I will not flinch.

  Lynn Flewelling

  Eye, Thrust

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• Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Flesh, Consciousness, Conscious

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• Sony has engaged in a technological version of cloak and dagger deceit against consumers by hiding secret files on their computers.

  Greg Abbott

  Secret, Deceit, Computer

  "Sony BMG sued by state of taxes over anti-piracy software" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. November 22, 2005.

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