Lancet Quotes

The underlying message of the Lancet article is that if you want to understand aggressive behaviour in children, look to the social and emotional environment in which they are growing up, and the values they bring to the viewing experience. (Hugh Mackay)
At one time I thought the Editor of the Lancet would kindly publish a letter from me on the subject, but further reflection led me to doubt whether so insignificant an individual would be noticed without some special introduction. View quote
William Banting
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living. View quote
Nicolas Chamfort
I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison. View quote
Mark Twain
You wish, or rather, have decided, to remove a splinter from someone? Very well, but do not go after it with a stick instead of a lancet for you will only drive it deeper. Rough speech and harsh gestures are the stick, while even-tempered instruction and patient reprimand are the lancet. 'Reprove, rebuke, exhort,' says the Apostle (II Tim. 4:2), not 'batter'. View quote
John Climacus
The medical men proposed bleeding, but he refused, observing, "Have you no other remedy than bleeding?-there are many more die of the lancet than the lance.”. View quote
Lord Byron