Top 100 Dagger Quotes
#1. Gabriel raised an eyebrow. "Are you seriously going out with a dagger strapped to your back? You might as well just wear a sign that says Look at me, I'm a killer!
Chelsea Fine
#2. Words have power, for better or worse.
Like the smell of fresh rain on cut grass,
Or the stench of a decaying corpse,
Like the soft comfort of a warm blanket on your shoulders,
Or the agony of a dagger splitting your chest in two.
Use them wisely.
David Estes
#3. In 2007 the 'dagger' of an idea that killed President Bush's effort at reforming the immigration system was lax border security.
Juan Williams
#4. The enemy is not the person standing before you, sword in hand. It is the person standing next to you with a dagger concealed behind his back.
Paulo Coelho
#5. I could see that Isabel listened to him with growing exasperation. Larry had no notion that he was driving a dagger in her heart and with his every detached word twisting it in the wound. But when she spoke it was with a faint smile on her lips.
W. Somerset Maugham
#6. And, therefore, hold your head high, Herr Stiefel! - Such a crisis as this comes to all of us and will soon be surmounted. If all of us had recourse to dagger or poison in such cases, there would soon be no men left in the world.
Frank Wedekind
#7. What could you possibly write at Gates of Hades?" Cadmus asked.
"Keep your spirits up." Lycon sheathed the dagger he'd used to chisel the trunk.
Cadmus shook his head. "Idiot.
Sulari Gentill
#8. 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
#9. If one wants to be loved
and return it full score
dagger of silence
closes the door.
David W. Earle
#10. Think about it. He drinks poison. What kind of man drinks poison? She is the one who stabs herself with his dagger. The manly way.
Anne Fortier
#11. 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
#12. That was my favorite dagger.
She had a favorite dagger? Seriously? And she thought that I was a freak.
Jennifer Estep
#14. Familiarity is the dagger thrust into the heart of fear.
Todd Stocker
#15. Thou you thrust your dagger at my eye, I will not flinch.
Lynn Flewelling
#16. When I was young, I was trained in stage fighting and rapier and dagger for several years.
Suzanne Collins
#17. She looked at him and felt a dagger pierce her heart, then she felt a warm chocolate feeling swallow her senses.
Isabelle Hardesty
#18. You tried to kill me with your dagger," Valten said calmly. "I can get you disqualified from this tournament." "Are you threatening me?" "Yes.
Melanie Dickerson
#19. The shelves were packed close together, and it felt like I was standing at the border of a forest
not a friendly Californian forest, either, but an old Transylvanian forest, a forest full of wolves and witches and dagger-wielding bandits all waiting just beyond moonlight's reach.
Robin Sloan
#20. I'll give you this much; it might be our dagger
Henning
#21. Teresa handed Thomas a really long knife, almost a sword. He couldn't imagine where she'd been hiding these things, but she now held a short dagger in addition to her spear.
James Dashner
#22. I would rather my enemy's sword pierce my heart then my friend's dagger stab me in the back. Faustus - Don't Talk Back To Your Vampire
Michele Bardsley
#23. The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the sand was romantic. The carefulness of lifting pots and objects from the soil filled me with a longing to be an archaeologist myself.
Agatha Christie
#24. The dagger strapped to her thigh, the pistol strapped to the opposite calf, the three poisoned needles she kept in her hair. He noted she kept the garroting wire she used to tie her sandals, but she pulled out the razor blades tucked into the soles.
Kameron Hurley
#25. Having a large amount of leverage is like driving a car with a dagger on the steering wheel pointed at your heart. If you do that, you will be a better driver. There will be fewer accidents but when they happen, they will be fatal.
Warren Buffett
#26. And - holy shit was this song bad. It was like the singer was stabbing my ear with a dagger made of dried turds.
David Wong
#27. A curve of silver hung amid the brighter specks; it looked to me like a curved dagger, pretty but deadly, as if it might slice the sky in two.
Ann Aguirre
#29. The dagger belonged to Artemis Entreri. Pasha Pook's prime assassin.
R.A. Salvatore
#30. Bildon killed Tad. Look, there's his dagger hidden in the pot of semolina. There's the proof," he screamed. "It's in the pudding."
What an idiot, thought Madrick as he raced up the steps, the proof is always in the eating.
Ken Magee
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. Piercing My Hearte there is A Golden Dagger; That is God
Piercing God's Hearte there is a Golden Needle; That is me
Tad Williams
#35. He had seen bigger men than he with mummy's handkerchief clutched in on hand and a bloody dagger in the other.
Eoin Colfer
#36. You drove a dagger through my back, Elena. It hurt.
Rebecca
#37. He shook his head. Everyone fears me, except you, Latro. When a man is respected, no one wants to plant a dagger in his back. When he is feared, everyone thinks upon it, and tests the point.
Gene Wolfe
#38. A dagger wants flesh, her father would say. Find it.
Marie Rutkoski
#39. Knowledge could be more valuable than gold, more deadly than a dagger.
George R R Martin
#40. Remember, Shaw, that the power of the dagger lies not only in the visual, but also the symbolic.
Carla Trueheart
#41. MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal.
Ambrose Bierce
#42. 'Homeland' is a thriller with a lot of cloak and dagger spy stuff, which is one of the things that makes it so much fun.
Adam Rayner
#43. Embrace your enemy," the elders urged, "to prevent him striking you." ("Embrace your enemy," Henry quipped, "to feel his dagger tickle your kidneys.")
David Mitchell
#44. A kiss on the lips and a dagger in the heart,' as in Schiller's Robbers.7
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#45. I was just wondering if you were armed. You want anything? Dagger, maybe?" He opened his own suit jacket just a bit, and Simon saw something long an metallic glinting against the inside lining.
"No wonder you and Jace like each other so much. You're both crazy walking arsenals.
Cassandra Clare
#46. Roland studied her a bit more, a tad too intently. "Perhaps you and I shall get to work with each other a bit, Lillian. Your position intrigues me."
She wouldn't mind working with him - but not in the way Roland meant. Her way would include a dagger, a shovel, and an unmarked grave.
Sarah J. Maas
#47. In a political struggle, never get personal - else the dagger digs too deep.
Jack Valenti
#48. It had, however, been declared by his own physician to be a case of natural causes. Bentzen had gone to see the man and explained that falling down a flight of steps with a dagger in your back was a disease caused by an unwise opening of the mouth.
Terry Pratchett
#49. This was how an enemy should be dealt with: with a dagger, not a declaration.
George R R Martin
#50. That seemed like so very long ago. But I had. As long as the doors weren't completely evil, I'd lost no more than an evening. Smiling, I pulled on my boots and checked the placement of my dagger in its holster. As
Kalayna Price
#51. Sweet it was, sweet and gone too soon. Dawn came cruel, a dagger of light.
George R R Martin
#52. How many did she kill?"
"Dozens, my Lord, until her sword was dull with the blood of her enemies."
Reign stroked the edge of the dagger with his forefinger until a drop of blood was drawn. The blood absorbed into the blade. "Only that? I will see her bathed in blood before me.
Danielle Monsch
#53. As I lifted the ash dagger, something inside me fractured so completely that there would be no hope of ever repairing it.
Sarah J. Maas
#54. What if the rat returns? I donna think ye'd want to be lying flat on the pallet if he does."
She swatted at him. "That's why I have you and my dagger to protect me."
"Me, aye. Your dagger, nae so much.
Victoria Roberts
#57. I often think about her. One thing she said stayed with me, a dagger in my heart: "You know for me the most horrible thing of all is knowing that he will forget me."
I lacked the presence of mind to tell her that it was impossible; she was simply unforgettable.
Ingrid Betancourt
#58. Are we ready?"
"You have your dagger?"
"I rarely leave home without it."
"Then to the Batcave, Sentinel.
Chloe Neill
#59. 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
#60. Piper didn't dare look - not while she was running with a dagger in her hand. She could just see herself tripping and stabbing herself in the nose. That would be super heroic.
Rick Riordan
#61. 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
#62. We are not wounded so deeply when betrayed by the things we hope for as when betrayed by things we try our best to despise.
In such betrayal comes the dagger in the back.
Yukio Mishima
#64. I hereby pledge to serve the Dagger Society, to strike fear into the hearts of those who rule Kenettra, to take by death what belong to us, and to make the power of our Elites known to every man, woman, and child. Should I break my vow, let the dagger take from me what I took from the dagger.
Marie Lu
#65. 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
#66. Sony has engaged in a technological version of cloak and dagger deceit against consumers by hiding secret files on their computers
Greg Abbott
#67. What are you doing here? (Stryker)
(She answered his question with a stroke of her dagger that narrowly missed his throat.)
I thought we'd catch up on old times. Maybe play Parcheesi. (Stryker)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#68. Every act of love is a dagger in the heart of ISIS. May they bleed to death.
Johnnie Moore
#69. There were three of them, all with rapiers, and she had only a dagger. It would have been a wretchedly uneven fight, if she were human.
It was still a wretchedly uneven fight; it was just uneven in her favor.
Rosamund Hodge
#70. Piper had a new entry in her top-ten list of Times Piper Felt Useless.
Fighting Shrimpzilla with a dagger and a pretty voice? Not so effective.
Rick Riordan
#71. You have the face of a man who gently caresses field flowers and dandelions. And a smile that is like a dagger, cutting the sun in halves.
Malak El Halabi
#72. The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.
Thomas Paine
#73. He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death.
George R R Martin
#74. And according to her dagger, that crazy teddy-bear-strangling kid, Octavian, was whipping the Romans into a war frenzy.
Rick Riordan
#75. But when your sword breaks, you draw your dagger.
C.S. Lewis
#76. I looked closely at it for the first time; the charm was just a slim line of silver - half of it hammered into the shape of a feather, the other half a dagger. It was interesting and beautiful; just like him.
Michelle Hodkin
#77. His gaze was heat across her cheeks, her lips. It was touch. His eyes were hypnotic, his brows black and velvet. He was copper and shadow, honey and menace, the severity of knife-blade cheekbones and a widow's peak like the point of a dagger.
Laini Taylor
#78. Gabriel slowly raised his head and stared at her. Ten graduate students inhaled as one and began to move backward in their chairs, fearful that he might explode, or that a dagger from his eye might fly out and gut them.
Sylvain Reynard
#79. For what shall I wield a dagger, O Lord?
What can I pluck it out of,
Or plunge it into,
When you are all the world?
Devara Dasimayya
#80. To date, treasure-hunters have followed up clue after clue, including a dagger-marked tree, to no avail. If there is a fortune buried in Handcart Gulch, it is still safely hidden
Phyllis Flanders Dorset
#81. A werewolf who fights with sword and dagger," he said, "is as unnatural as a dog who eats with a fork and a knife.
Cassandra Clare
#82. As they went by Assail, the male was watching them. "Jesus, he really is blind"
Wrath pulled up short and unsheathed his dagger, pointed it directly into the guys face. "But my hearing is just fine
J.R. Ward
#83. Oh, don't look at this frail, old druid like that, Solomon. I may be slow in my movements, buy my mind is sharp as a dagger's tip. Lazerin smirked.
Madison Thorne Grey
#84. The prince put the dagger on the table. "Sorry."
Yorick bent forward and looked up into his eyes. "Don't forget our respective places here. I'm your clown. Your plaything. Your toy. Scarcely human. No need to apologise.
A.J. Hartley
#85. The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide.
Margaret Cho
#86. If you cast me out of the Dagger Society, then I will form my own. I am tired of losing. I am tired of being used, hurt and tossed aside.
It is my turn to use. My turn to hurt.
My turn.
Marie Lu
#87. Reading was hardly as practical a skill as being able to handle a dagger or use Allomancy?
Brandon Sanderson
#88. The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
Lord Acton
#89. Folded hands may conceal a dagger --
Likewise a foe's tears.
Thiruvalluvar
#90. Luckily Rollan was more unflappable. He stepped forward, bravely brandishing his long dagger, however pathetic it looked compared to the teeth of Cabaro.
Eliot Schrefer
#91. Someone who wants to attain enlightenment must be brave. He must rush into the crowd of enemies with a dagger. In the practice of Zen, enemies are our delusive thoughts and passions.
Yamada Koun
#93. Falling down a flight of steps with a dagger in your back is a disease caused by unwise opening of the mouth.
Terry Pratchett
#94. She would never give him her dagger. "I tried so hard to live in your world," she told him. "Now it's your turn to live in mine.
Marie Rutkoski
#95. What a mouse he is made by conversation,' " Ezri recited. " 'Scorns gods, dares battle, and flinches from a maid's rebuke! Merest laugh from merest girl is like a dagger felt, and like a dagger, makes a lodging of his breast. Turns blood to milkwater and courage to faint memory.'
Scott Lynch
#96. Edward stretched out his arm, his hand curled into a fist. Seth grinned, revealing the long row of dagger teeth, and bumped his nose against Edward's hand.
"Nice teamwork," Edward murmured.
Stephenie Meyer
#97. Fear not the phantom of death,
My Countrymen, for his greatness
And mercy will refuse to approach
Your smallness; and dread not the
Dagger, for it will decline to be
Lodged in your shallow hearts.
Kahlil Gibran
#98. Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.
Emil Cioran
#99. This is not Winterfell', he told him as he cut his meat with fork and dagger. 'On the Wall, a man gets only what he earns. You're no ranger, Jon, only a green boy with the smell of summer still on you.
George R R Martin
#100. Talent is useful, but always keep your dagger sharp.
Amanda Quick
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