Quotes About A Knife

#1. Cruelty is not taught. It is as certain as a compass point. One can be instructed in the specifics of cruelty, like one can be taught to use a spoon, a knife, a fork, but even without these skills a man will still eat. The need is with us.

Lee Thomas

#2. I know Jane is dear to you," Bess said. "I also know that she's in danger. But Jane is one person, Edward. There are thousands of lives at stake. There's a kingdom on the edge of a knife. We must tread carefully.

Cynthia Hand

#3. It was always a relief when she came home to him. Like water or food. Like music or that moment when you cut yourself with a knife and squeeze the skin and no blood oozes out.

Francesca Lia Block

#4. He is the only man she has ever loved, and he has dumped her like ballast. She needs to find an explanation that does not make her a fool and him an animal, but every thought of him is a knife turning in the wound love made.

Mark Haddon

#5. When an audience is laughing, that's opening their souls somehow, and when you have an audience with an open soul, it's much better to hit them with a knife.

Fatih Akin

#6. Wonder if she'd smile so broadly if she had to kill all those people with a knife. How easy we make mass murder.

Pierce Brown

#7. Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.

John Owen

#8. Playing without the fundamentals is like eating without a knife and fork. You make a mess.

Dick Williams

#9. A photograph of poverty is not a photograph but it is a knife that sticks into the hearts of everyman who looks at it!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. Sometimes, power could change hands as quickly as a knife thrust.

Conn Iggulden

#11. That's the difference between a champ and a knife thrower. The champ may have lost his stuff temporarily or permanently, he can't be sure. But when he can no longer throw the high hard one, he throws his heart instead. He throws something. He doesn't just walk off the mound and weep.

Raymond Chandler

#12. A minister, without boldness, is like a smooth file, a knife without an edge, a sentinel that is afraid to let off his gun. If men will be bold in sin, ministers must be bold to reprove.

William Gurnall

#13. Um, hate to break it to you, nut Em doesn't need justice", I pointed out, voice heavy with sarcasm. "She needs to not get cut with a knife in the first place. Women are finicky that way - we like not getting cut.

Joanna Wylde

#14. Never feel this bad again. Never come back to this place, where only a knife will do. Live a gentle and kind life. Don't do things that make you want to hurt yourself. Whatever you do, every day, remember this - then steer away from here.

Caitlin Moran

#15. The coolest gift I've ever gotten from a fan was from the Franklin Mint. It was a knife, and it had a picture of General Wade Hampton, who my oldest son is named after. It's a collector's item and came with a case and a stand and everything.

Josh Turner

#16. Keep it simple in the kitchen. If you use quality ingredients, you don't need anything fancy to make food delicious: just a knife, a cutting board, and some good nonstick cookware, and you're set.

Curtis Stone

#17. And those fingers just keep on wagging until some gay teenager hangs himself because he can't fight the fucking tornado of hatred whirling around his head, and that ill wind keeps blowing, until over in Kenya, some man lifts a knife and cuts out a young girl's clitoris? It's all connected, Dale.

Eden Connor

#18. You've always been handy with a knife, Mother

Val McDermid

#19. A knife slash with a sharp blade almost never caused pain unless delivered with force. As the skin parted, there was only a stinging sensation. Spinning,

David Morrell

#20. Like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring: when a' was naked, he was, for all the world, like a forked radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife.

William Shakespeare

#21. Tessa is gone, and every moment she is gone is a knife ripping me apart from the inside.

Cassandra Clare

#22. She pulled the hood over the girl's ears and fastened it tight. Biterblue looked like a potato sack, a small, shivering potato sack with empty eyes and a knife.

Kristin Cashore

#23. At the end of the European leg, our lead guitar player pulled a knife on our bus driver in England. I

Duff McKagan

#24. (Stoner stepped into view and put the barrel of his 9 mm H&K against the man's forehead.)
Drop it. They can patch a knife would, but I doubt we'll find all the pieces to put your brain back together. (Stoner)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#25. A knife is neither true nor false, but anyone impaled on its blade is in error.

Rene Daumal

#26. There could be few men whose love for a woman had been written on his face with a knife.

Cornelia Funke

#27. Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife, and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot the owners as they come out. Let us kill them without mercy, and let it be a war of extermination.

Lucy Parsons

#28. Memory entering the head like a knife.
A girl's hands slicing the heart in two.

Alfian Sa'at

#29. Only one thing is certain: we live on a knife edge. In

Bill Bryson

#30. A watermelon that breaks open by itself tastes better than one cut with a knife.

Hualing Nieh Engle

#31. When I was 14, I saw someone getting their face and wrists slashed with a knife in a pub in Catford. Nobody lifted a finger. That's when I realised that violence wasn't funny. At all.

Noel Fielding

#32. I ended up injuring her with a knife I had on me. I can't really remember what happened.

Mathias Rust

#33. Never bring a knife to a gun fight, I tell Mr. Crispy as I turn away from him. His right arm thinks about it for a moment, then falls off.

Charles Stross

#34. To those who value words of affirmation, criticism feels like a knife in the heart.

Paul E. White

#35. Footballers are more likely to work better if they get a pat on their back from the boss. A knife in the back is never the answer.

Gary Lineker

#36. A knife is a godsend to the man tied in ropes, death to the man in chains.

James Dashner

#37. My body is a journal in a way. It's like what sailors used to do, where every tattoo meant something, a specific time in your life when you make a mark on yourself, whether you do it yourself with a knife or with a professional tattoo artist.

Johnny Depp

#38. Enter my first neighbor - a woman who spoke in complete, coherent sentences, who ate with a knife and fork and who only cried at weddings. I couldn't help myself. In a dramatic gesture, I bolted the door and threw my body across it to prevent her exit. She understood.

Erma Bombeck

#39. What kind of rescue is this, where you toss the prisoner a knife and stand and wait to see what happens?

Orson Scott Card

#40. You need to give money when someone gives you a knife. So the bad luck won't cut you. I wouldn't like it for you to be cut by the bad luck, Jimmy.

Margaret Atwood

#41. I write and chop with my left hand and do everything else, including eating with a knife, with my right.

Heston Blumenthal

#42. 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.

Bruce Springsteen

#43. You could stab a knife right through my heart and you'd be too late.

Chuck Palahniuk

#44. I don't know, I haven't read the handbook, but my guess is, bikers don't do royal weddings. More like, rowdy weddings that end in someone gettin' stuck with a knife.

Kristen Ashley

#45. And get me clean clothes and fresh water." "Since when am I your valet?" "Man with a knife, remember?" he said over his shoulder. "Man with a gun!" Jesper called after him.

Leigh Bardugo

#46. He especially enjoyed watching Mrs. Sen as she chopped things, seated on newspapers on the living room floor. Instead of a knife she used a blade that curved like the prow of a Viking ship, sailing to battle in distant seas. The blade was hinged at one end to a narrow wooden base.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#47. I felt the glare on my back, knowing that if it were a knife, I'd be incapacitated instantly.

Rebecca Donovan

#48. If you want to understand what a watermelon is, you take a watermelon, get a knife, and cut the watermelon. Then you put a slice in your mouth. Boom! YOUR experience!

Seungsahn

#49. Sex as something beautiful may soon disappear. Once it was a knife so finely honed the edge was invisible until it was touched and then it cut deep. Now it is so blunt that it merely bruises and leaves ugly marks.

Mary Astor

#50. You cannot stick a knife in a goat and then say, "now I will remove my knife slowly - so let things be easy and clean; let there be no mess." There will always be blood.

Yaa Gyasi

#51. Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?

Stanislaw Lem

#52. Most of the books and films I love walk a knife edge between romance and cynicism, and I wanted 'One Day' to stay on that line. I wanted it to be moving, but without being manipulative.

David Nicholls

#53. My father came back one day and forced my mother to submit to him. He raped her, holding a knife.

Ethel Waters

#54. I have a knife collection.

Taylor Momsen

#55. You done a number on him, Colt. He needs a doctor, or he ain't gonna make it." "He tried to rape her, Split. Then he punched her." "To be fair," Nell puts in, "he only punched me after I put a knife to his throat." Split coughs a laugh. "You what? Girl, you crazy.

Jasinda Wilder

#56. The moon was a crescent, thin and sharp as the blade of a knife.

George R R Martin

#57. That's the way it is with bullies, Grandma told me once. You give them an inch and they'll run you through with a knife.

Benjamin X. Wretlind

#58. Women are like pumpkins; you search and search for the perfect one, bring it home, and the next thing you know, you're looking for a knife.

Dana Gould

#59. Along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox - the single most worthy path of the fearless mind ...

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#60. It's the people who smile at you during the day while plunging a knife in your back that are the monsters.

Katie McGarry

#61. You know, you guys have been dancing around each other for so long you could cut the sexual tension with a knife. It's a wonder you didn't rip each other's clothes off the minute you got over yourselves and got together."
"For crissakes, Heather.

Susan Bischoff

#62. I hate myself so much I want to stick a knife in my heart.

Patrick Ness

#63. A man may as well open an oyster without a knife, as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.

Barten Holyday

#64. Love is a knife that cuts out your heart piece by piece, feeding it to the boy you love.

Ilsa Madden-Mills

#65. High house shadow, and a knife in the dark. A new game's begun, or the old one's just turned.

Steven Erikson

#66. I'm not made to philosophize, I don't have the heart for it. My heart is more like a machine for making blood to be spilled in a knife fight...

Camilo Jose Cela

#67. Time goes by at the speed of life
Slower than a slow dance
on a hot summer night
Faster than the skin breaks
on the edge of a knife
And we just go on at the speed of life

Jude Cole

#68. Do not imagine that you can escape judgment if you rob people with a false prospectus rather than with a knife.

Christopher Hitchens

#69. There was something twisting in his gut that he wanted to deny and couldn't. It was like a knife in him that he could not remove lest he bleed to death.

Hazel B. West

#70. I'll tell you what justice is. Justice is a knee in the gut from the floor on the chin at night sneaky with a knife brought up down on the magazine of a battleship sandbagged underhanded in the dark without a word of warning

Joseph Heller

#71. I should probably be afraid. But instead a hysterical laugh bubbles inside me, because I just remembered something:
Maybe I can't hold a gun. But I have a knife in my back pocket.

Veronica Roth

#72. The night darkens, the stars unfriendly, the cold a knife upon her neck - but Nella waits, until she can no longer difference between Johannes and the darkness that carries him away.

Jessie Burton

#73. I don't look at a knife the way I used to. I'm more aware of what it is. I think twice. This is a key finger. It's in every chord.

Neil Young

#74. I though about what death is, what a loss is. A sharp pain that lessens with time, but can never quite heal over. A scar. The idea occurred to me there on the site. Take a knife and cut open the earth, and with time the grass would heal it. As if you cut open the rock and polished it.

Maya Lin

#75. A wife can give you strife. A wife can act like a knife, and a wife can help you have a good life. And the same goes for husbands.

Art Hochberg

#76. What meals I had in silence and embarrassment, always feeling that there were a knife and fork too many, and that mine; an appetite too many, and that mine; a plate and chair too many, and those mine; a somebody too many, and that I!

Charles Dickens

#77. Some people perceive me as an assassin or at least someone who can slip under your guard with a knife. But if you watch what I do, that's almost never the case. I'm just trying to keep the balloon in the air. It rarely turns into anything combative.

Stephen Colbert

#78. As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible.

Mario Batali

#79. Annabeth glared at me, and I started to wish I hadn't asked her about this while she was holding a knife.

Rick Riordan

#80. I'll teach you how to defend yourself, how to maim a man. We can use Po as a model.'
'Wonderful,' Po said. 'It's quite boring really, the way you beat me to death with your hands and feet, Katsa. It'll be refreshing to have you come at me with a knife.

Kristin Cashore

#81. There it is again. Promises. They used to hold such high value when I was younger. Now they just bore into my heart like a knife just waiting to twist. I brush the sand from my pants.

Celia Mcmahon

#82. To ask the master for a knife, or skillet, or any small convenience of the kind, would be answered with a kick, or laughed at as a joke. Whatever necessary article of this nature is found in a cabin has been purchased with Sunday money.

Solomon Northup

#83. Of course he has a knife, he always has a knife, we all have knives! It's 1183 and we're barbarians!

James Goldman

#84. Good creatures, do you love your lives
And have you ears for sense?
Here is a knife like other knives,
That cost me eighteen pence.
I need but stick it in my heart
And down will come the sky,
And earth's foundations will depart
And all you folk will die.

A.E. Housman

#85. She looked at the knife, her throat tight with emotion. No roses or rings with him, but a knife with feathers carved into the handle. A knife that was part of him. She couldn't accept it.

Veronica Rossi

#86. It's like 10,000 spoons, when all you need is a knife.

Alanis Morissette

#87. It isn't silence you can cut with a knife any more, it's interchange of ideas. Intelligent discussion of practically everything is what is breaking up modern marriage.

E.B. White

#88. Making war or rebellion is messy, like eating soup off a knife.

Edward Thomas

#89. I remember many a time, going into someplace like Wrigley Field - where you could cut the humidity with a knife - and playing a doubleheader. I loved to play the game. It didn't matter if it was a doubleheader, or a single game, or a day game after a night game. I wanted to play.

Gary Carter

#90. Who wears white to a knife fight?

Leigh Bardugo

#91. And my religious hunger, now invents God
To make them a frame, to fill the void.

Then my silly pious sense of harmony
Loudly rejoices in orderly actuality

But already, my fierce rebellion, the best poet
Calmly sharpens a knife on the stone of my heart.

Rafal Wojaczek

#92. A knife is cutlery in one hand and a weapon in another.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#93. In order to eat a pomegranate you need this many things: a pomegranate, a knife, a cutting board, a bowl and a towel.
Also, two hands. These help with the making of the pomegranate.

Tahereh Mafi

#94. would show that inside twenty-one feet against a knife, trying to get a gun out is typically a losing bet, especially if you're backing straight up rather than getting off the line.

Barry Eisler

#95. A dispassionate white sun shone at the summit of the sky. I wanted to hone myself on it till I grew saintly and thin and essential as the blade of a knife.

Sylvia Plath

#96. I love the French edition with its uncut pages. I would not want a reader too lazy to use a knife on me.

Lawrence Durrell

#97. When the owner of the pig arrived he found a scrawny and bloodcovered white boychild standing on what was left of his property sawing at it with a knife and hauling on the skin and cursing. The dirty half flayed pig looked like something recovered from a shallow grave.

Cormac McCarthy

#98. No form of revenge could have made me hate you any less. If I had cut the two of you to shreds with a knife, I think I would have hated the little pieces of you just the same.

Kanae Minato

#99. There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#100. Instead, I cut him. Not deep, but there was enough of a sting in the wound to remind him of what I'd done to the dwarven mobsters in the parking lot - and that I wasn't just some chick with a knife who looked good in black.

Jennifer Estep