Dagger Quotes - page 3

How do you think a spade, sword or dagger wounds us? Because the metal is a form of matter in which the particles are closer and more tightly bound together than those of your flesh. (Cyrano de Bergerac)
When I was young I was trained in stage fighting and rapier and dagger, for several years. View quote
Suzanne Collins
The night was long and dark and just Another dagger to my trust. I thrust it in until I bleed I wiped my point for you to see. And anyway, It's over now. Nothing left to say. View quote
Alicia Witt
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. View quote
William Cowper
No charm is proof against a dagger in the back. View quote
Tad Williams
Fear is a dagger with which hypocrisy assassinates the soul. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
Reconstruction was overthrown, not that it ground to an exhausted halt. Indifference and inattention helped to divert resources from Reconstruction, but the real dagger was planted in Reconstruction's back by political insurgency. View quote
Allen C. Guelzo
The attempt by eleven southern-and slaveholding-states to secede from the Union in the winter and spring of 1860-61 presented the United States with the greatest internal political challenge it had ever faced. Because the Constitution had created a federal Union, secession (which broke the ties of Union) was a dagger at the heart of the American polity. The fact that this secession was motivated by Southerners' determination to protect their investment in human slavery added a cruel twist of the blade. Not only did secession fracture the Union, it did so on behalf of a practice which obliterated the fundamental natural right to liberty, which the federal Constitution was supposed to protect. View quote
Allen C. Guelzo
Would you require a wretched being, whose life is slowly wasting under a lingering disease, to despatch himself at once by the stroke of a dagger? Does not the very disorder which consumes his strength deprive him of the courage to effect his deliverance? View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth. View quote
William Shakespeare
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)
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. View quote
Tryon Edwards