Knife Quotes

Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork? (Stanisław Jerzy Lec)
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. View quote
James Russell Lowell
I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife. View quote
Louise Brooks
In a mind all logic is like a knife blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. View quote
Zora Neale Hurston
Do all lovers feel helpless and valiant in the presence of the beloved? Helpless because the need to roll over like a pet dog is never far away. Valiant because you know you would slay a dragon with a pocket knife if you had to. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
Surgeons must be very careful, When they take the knife, Underneath their fine incisions, Stirs the Culprit Life. View quote
Emily Dickinson
The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear. View quote
Edward Young
His fine wit Makes such a wound, the knife is lost in it. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The best thing I have is the knife from Fatal Attraction. I hung it in my kitchen. It's my way of saying, Don't mess with me. View quote
Glenn Close
There could be few men whose love for a woman had been written on his face with a knife. (Cornelia Funke)
When I was little, my mother taught me how to use a fork and knife. The trouble is that Mother forget to teach me how to stop using them! View quote
Hattie McDaniel
I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I do know how to count. View quote
Mickey Gilley
She went away, she cut me like a knife. Hello beautiful thing, maybe you could save my life. In just a glance, down here on magic street, Loves a fool's dance And I ain't got much sense, but I still got my feet. View quote
Bruce Springsteen
If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge - so, too, there are consolations of tone too fine for the ear not fondly and for ever to retain their echo: caressing kindnesses - loved, lingered over through a whole life, recalled with unfaded tenderness, and answering the call with undimmed shine, out of that raven cloud foreshadowing Death himself. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
We hated Bauhaus. It was a bad time in architecture. They just didn't have any talent. All they had were rules. Even for knives and forks they created rules. Picasso would never have accepted rules. The house is like a machine? No! The mechanical is ugly. The rule is the worst thing. You just want to break it. View quote
Oscar Niemeyer
As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatment, so shouldst thou have thy thoughts ready to understand things divine and human, remembering in thy every act, even the smallest, how close is the bond that unites the two. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart. View quote
Chinua Achebe
Our relationship couldn't continue to balance, as it did, on the point of a knife. We would fall off one edge or the other, depending entirely on his decision, or his instincts. My decision was made, made before I'd ever consciously chosen, and I was committed to seeing it through. Because there was nothing more terrifying to me, more excruciating, than the thought of turning away from him. It was an impossibility. View quote
Stephenie Meyer
A woman's eyes cut deeper than a knife. View quote
Robert Jordan
If you try putting a woman on a horse when she does not want to go, she may put a knife in your ribs. (Robert Jordan)
Never kiss a girl whose brothers have knife scars. View quote
Robert Jordan
Is it worthwhile that we jostle a brother, Bearing his load on the rough road of life? Is it worthwhile that we jeer at each other, In blackness of heart - that we war to the knife? God pity us all in our pitiful strife. View quote
Joaquin Miller
No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style. View quote
Steven Brust
There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge. View quote
Raymond Chandler
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