Top 23 Brandish Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Brandish

#1. I'M CONFUSED, because I don't know why it's so hard to obey a policeman. You will not win!!! And I don't know why some policeman abuse their power. Power is a responsibility, not a weapon to brandish and lord over the populace.

Benjamin Watson

#2. The English language is an arsenal of weapons; if you are going to brandish them without checking to see whether or no they are loaded you must expect to have them explode in your face from time to time. "Poppycock" means "soft shit" - from the Dutch, I need scarcely remind you, pappe kak.

Stephen Fry

#3. Unlike perfume, handbags are visible on the body, and--like Air Jordans for teenagers--give the wearer the chance to brandish the logo and publicly declare her status or aspiration.

Dana Thomas

#4. The only way to vanquish cowardice is to brandish courage.

Charles M. Blow

#5. How funny would it be if we left a trail of Faerie dust in our wake?"
"That would be hilarious." I laughed. "It's a shame we don't produce any." Do we? I idiotically shook my hand as I tried to brandish Faerie dust like Tinkerbell. It didn't work.

Cesya MaRae Cuono

#6. I wish it were socially acceptable to brandish a knife.

Caroline Kepnes

#7. Comets importing change of times and states,
Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky
And with them scourge the bad revolting stars.

William Shakespeare

#8. Just pretend you know what you're doing. Plant a menacing scowl on your face and stand guard at the door. If someone advances your way, brandish the weapon and bellow like an Arcrean clansman.

Nicole Sager

#9. Reputation is like a sort of armor, or a weapon you can brandish if need be.

Patrick Rothfuss

#10. When I was young, I used to expect Parisians to wear little black berets, to bicycle about with strings of onions around their necks, and to brandish long sticks of bread, just like they used to do in school textbooks.

Craig Brown

#11. We'd seen firsthand how the man handled a crisis. If Marcia decided suddenly to brandish a stapler in a half-threatening manner, he'd fumble with his Motorola and forget his name.

Joshua Ferris

#12. Why, after all, did she do these things? why seek pinnacles and stand drenched in fire? Might it consume her anyhow! Burn her to cinders! Better anything, better brandish one's torch and hurl it to earth than taper and dwindle away ...

Virginia Woolf

#13. You'll reach into your wallet to brandish a photograph of a new puppy, and a friend will say, 'Oh, no - not pictures.'

Caroline Knapp

#14. Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

Ralph Ellison

#15. There was something facile and shallow about male beauty, she thought.

William Boyd

#16. I don't have proper places to run.

Nader Al-Masri

#17. I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? What's a soul? What's it all about? What is thinking about, imagination?

Jane Campion

#18. Oh God," Coyote said, and rolled onto his side, propping his head up on one hand. "It's hard to remember something that long ago. It's almost like an epic poem I memorized once, and can barely recite anymore.

Kim Stanley Robinson