59 Dagger Quotes
Following is our list of dagger quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about cloak and dagger.
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Short Dagger Quotes
- Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts. — Benito Mussolini
- Use your wit as a shield, not as a dagger. — American Proverbs
- Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? — William Shakespeare
- Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness. — William Shakespeare
- Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living. — Douglas Malloch
- The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy. — Thomas Paine
- Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh. — E. M. Cioran
- The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge. — Lord Acton
- Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth. — William Shakespeare
- Tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil. — William Shakespeare
Cloak And Dagger Quotes
Sony has engaged in a technological version of cloak and dagger deceit against consumers by hiding secret files on their computers. — Greg Abbott
I realized that we were all sort of conspiring, well, not conspiring against each other, but all this cloak and dagger stuff and I was like; what is this? — Eric San
The theft potentially of data does create this image of sort of cloak and dagger politics that we sort of imagine when we think of underhanded politics. — Tamara Keith
How do you solve a mystery? How do you write a book? The techniques for starting both are surprisingly similar. Find an intriguing question and, pen and dagger tucked under cloak, search for clues. — Claire Cameron
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More Dagger Quotes
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
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
The warrior (Zsadist) rolled his black eyes. "Come on, man. What does it matter to me? You, Tohr. Britney Spears. — J.R. Ward
Take off your coat." "Excuse me?" "Take it off." "No." "I want it off." "Then I suggest you hold your breath. Won't affect me in the slightest, but at least the suffocation will help pass the time for you. [Vishous to Jane] — J.R. Ward
From one king to another, know that I'm giving you the middle finger right now." And he was, with a smile. — J.R. Ward
Therefore, to teach them [women] at least an outline of economics and law is the first requirement after giving them a general education. Figuratively speaking, it will be like providing the women of civilized society with a pocket dagger for self-protection. — Fukuzawa Yukichi
Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast. — Samuel Johnson
Those eerie diamond eyes shifted over to her and she stilled, as if he's willed her to do so. There was a moment of silence. And then in a rough voice the man whose life she saved spoke four words that changed everything...changed her life, changed her destiny: "She. Comes. With. Me. — J.R. Ward
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
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
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
No one expects a woman busy at her sewing to pay attention to what’s being said around her. Nevermind if a man’s mother and sister showerd them they heard everything while they stictched, he’ll still think a woman who plies her needles saves all her brains for the work. You’re a far better spy hemming sheets than if you clank with daggers. — Tamora Pierce
The ruling family in Kuwait is good at blackmail, exploitation, and destruction of their opponents. They had perpetuated a grave U.S. conspiracy against us.... stabbing Iraq in the back with a poisoned dagger. — Saddam Hussein
Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? — William Shakespeare
You promised you would protect her Nico said. He might as well have stabbed me with a rusty dagger.It would've hurt less than reminding me of my promise. — Rick Riordan
The Santa Anas blew in hot from the desert, shriveling the last of the spring grass into whiskers of pale straw. Only the oleanders thrived, their delicate poisonous blooms, their dagger green leaves. We could not sleep in the hot dry nights, my mother and I. — Janet Fitch
In Narnia a girl might ring a bell in a deserted temple and feel the chime in her eyes, pure as the freeze that forces tears. Then when the sound dies out, the White Witch wakes. It was like, I want to touch you, and I can touch you, now what next, a dagger? — Helen Oyeyemi
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
On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers. -Old Seanchan saying — Robert Jordan
He sharpened his flaws and disappointments into daggers. — Pete Wentz
The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide. — Margaret Cho
Lachrymal counsellors, with one foot in the cave of despair, and the other invading the peace of their friends, are the paralyzers of action, the pests of society, and the subtlest homicides in the world; they poison with a tear; and convey a dagger to the heart while they press you to their bosoms. — Jane Porter
The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with the other the tongue. The former is worse that the latter, for the last only kills the body, while the other murders the reputation. — Tryon Edwards
...a third [of three] had died in his bunk of natural causes--for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one's life. — R. A. Salvatore
The truth is not in the commercial media because the truth is a dagger pointed at its heart, which is its pocketbook. — George Seldes
...Bringing the very heavens close enough to touch. It was Zsadist. His eyes closed, his head back, his mouth wide open, he sang. The scarred one, the souless one, had the voice of an angel. — J.R. Ward
I will speak daggers to her, but use none. — William Shakespeare
Fools carry their daggers in their open mouths. — Josh Billings
Fear is a dagger with which hypocrisy assassinates the soul. — Robert Green Ingersoll
In a political struggle, never get personal - else the dagger digs too deep. — Jack Valenti
The samurais lived with death constantly. They wore a short dagger to take their own life if need be. At any moment they might have to do that, it was a part of their code. — Frederick Lenz
Word - that invisible dagger. — Emile M. Cioran
I give interracial couples a look. Daggers. They get uncomfortable when they see me on the street. — Spike Lee
The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
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