Top 100 Quotes About Knives
#1. He'd told her they would fight their way out. Knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. She would fight for him, but she could not heal him. She would not waste her life trying.
Leigh Bardugo
#2. Of course he has a knife, he always has a knife, we all have knives! It's 1183 and we're barbarians!
James Goldman
#3. You know, one time I saw Tiger down at the waterhole: he had the biggest testicles of any animal, and the sharpest claws, and two front teeth as long as knives and as sharp as blades. And I said to him, 'Brother Tiger, you go for a swim, I'll look after your balls for you.
Neil Gaiman
#4. In the 1860s, Emperor Napoleon III of France commissioned aluminium cutlery to be laid out for his most distinguished guests. Less important visitors had to make do with the gold knives and forks.
Yuval Noah Harari
#5. It is not the foes who curse you to your face that you must fear, but those who smile when you are looking and sharpen their knives when you turn your back.
George R R Martin
#6. To avoid stabs on the back
you have to look behind
while moving forward.
I'd rather have knives in my back
than fall into a manhole!
Manoj Vaz
#7. You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It's all about survival; it's all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in ...
Nick Hornby
#8. I'm really great with weapons: I did a lot of bo and staff training for 'Immortals.' I love knives. I'm a pretty good shot. But I love hand-to-hand combat.
Kellan Lutz
#9. Self-harm - the world will come at you with knives anyway. You do not need to beat them to it.
Caitlin Moran
#10. Come on, Penny. Rita came over and Nate loosened his grasp. We've got to go to the kitchen. She turned to Nate. You know, the room with all the sharp knives.
Elizabeth Eulberg
#11. Dedicated ereaders are as sharp as steak knives in doing what they're supposed to do, which is let you read books. The iPad is more like a Swiss Army knife
it can cut the steak and uncork a wine bottle, and there's even a toothpick to use when you're done eating! It's got it all.
Jason Merkoski
#12. I write the way I do because some women don't want red roses and champagne--they need black roses and knives.
Suzanne Steele
#13. We were taught to be dependable, responsible, the top of our classes at school, the most organized and efficient babysitters in town, the very miniature models of our hardworking farmer/nurse mother, a pair of junior Swiss Army knives, born to multitask.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#14. He became a surgeon because he was afraid of knives. He got married because he was afraid of women. He had a child because he was afraid of responsibility. Now, his marriage over and his child no longer speaking to him, he turned off all the lights in the house because he was afraid of the dark
Michael Ventura
#15. The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do it for a god).
Terry Pratchett
#16. You three looking for something specific?" Her voice was surprisingly melodious.
"Any sacrificial knives?" Hi raised an index finger. "Nothing too fancy, and I'll need a no-slip grip. Me and the coven have some goats lined up for Saturday's bonfire."
I could've kicked him. I think I tried.
Kathy Reichs
#17. What, then, was left to her? She had no allies. She had no throne. She had no Mehmed, no Radu. She had only these sharp men and sharp knives and sharp dreams, and no way to make use of any of them.
Kiersten White
#18. Those who are so eager for women and girls to go back to the kitchen might think again about just what it is we might be up to in there. You can plan a lot of damage from a kitchen. It's also where the knives are kept.
Laurie Penny
#19. He's been going on about the End of All Things for as long as I've known him," she said carelessly. "And we're all still here. Hey, want to see a really upsetting party trick I can do with two flick-knives and an unwilling volunteer?
Simon R. Green
#21. I mean, when the world comes for your children, with the knives out, it's your job to stand in the way.
Joe Hill
#22. He was ruinously beautiful in the way that knives and scalpels can be beautiful
Holly Black
#23. Allison's eyes dart between me and the knives. Yeah, lady, a couple of hours in jail and I've moved from destruction of property to sociopath.
Katie McGarry
#24. The TSA gets all upset about things like razor blades and pocket knives. They're narrow minded that way.
Rex Cutty
#25. They had come for us in the night. Hey had come expecting a lot of blood. They had come with all their gear. Their rubber overshoes and their nylon bodysuits. Their knives, their hammer, their bag of nails. They had come to do a job on us, like they'd done on Morrison and his wife.
Lee Child
#26. The knife is is much sharper out of the box as it is in. And It's these knives which pretend more often than not.
Marc Duncan
#27. He is not angry now; knives are not angry. He is not tearful now; knives are not tearful. He is simply sharp and keen and inevitable.
Clive Barker
#28. I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that
Paula Hawkins
#29. Words cut deeper than knives. A knife can be pulled out, words are embedded into our souls.
William Chapman
#30. You underestimate how deeply you cut when your intentions carry no knives.
Penny Reid
#31. I'll smith for you," Gendry went to one knee before Lord Beric. "If you'll have me, m'lord, I could be of use. I've made tools and knives and once I made a helmet that wasn't so bad. One of the Mountain's men stole it from me when we was taken."
Arya bit her lip. He means to leave me too.
George R R Martin
#32. How do you know they are Hunters?" Lucien asked.
"They had guns and knives strapped to their bodies, and I saw the mark of infinity on one of their wrists." Branding themselves was foolish, if you asked him. Like putting a neon sign around their necks that read 'Shoot here'.
Gena Showalter
#33. Fidelis was not a religious man, except when it came to his knives.
Louise Erdrich
#34. We had scar-tissue
romance and ours was
a relationship of saying
goodbye - every time
we fought, every time
we fucked, and every time
we called it quits, before
picking up our knives
again
Phil Volatile
#35. I have a lot of cooking tools. In fact I have a whole drawer full of knives. Cooking tools, especially cutlery, are my toys.
Martin Yan
#36. each lady quietly relaxed and became more real, expanding into the space left by the men. Without visibly changing, they unfolded, like flowers, or knives. Faith
Frances Hardinge
#37. And who knows, maybe someone famous will respond to my ad... Maybe Johnny Depp will respond! I've always loved him since he played that man with the knives on his hands.
Emily Harper
#38. Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
Barbara Kingsolver
#39. Knicks and dull edges are abominations, so use knives and hatchets for nothing but they were made for.
Horace Kephart
#40. All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
Wally Lamb
#41. A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#42. Japanese chefs believe our soul goes into our knives once we start using them. You wouldn't put your soul in a dishwasher!
Masaharu Morimoto
#43. She nods. "We have five knives, two guns, and a big hole."
I look up into her innocent blue eyes and try not to smile. "Erm, okay."
"If you do anything bad, I will shoot you and put you in the hole."
Aah. Now I see why she was rattling off the inventory.
Beckie Stevenson
#44. One of the best things that ever happened to me was Rocky Horror being a total flop in New York as a play. I mean, it was a disaster, and it was the night of the long knives as far as the critics were concerned.
Tim Curry
#45. Big night of television tonight for Barack Obama. Earlier tonight, Barack Obama aired a half-hour infomercial to attract more voters. Yeah. Yeah, and apparently, if you watched the entire infomercial, Barack threw in a free set of Ginsu knives for you.
Conan O'Brien
#46. As we saw in chapter 3, one way the early modern Europeans used Odyssean self-control was to keep sharp knives out of reach at the dinner table.
Steven Pinker
#47. We boarded the plane after boxing our stakes and knives and taking them to a FedEx carrier, airport security being so strict nowadays. In the section marked 'contents', Bones filled out 'Tofu'. God, but he had a sick sense of humor sometimes.
Jeaniene Frost
#48. There is something indefinably keen and wan about her anatomy, and she has a watchful way of looking out of the corners of her eyes without turning her head which could be pleasantly dispensed with, especially when she is in ill humor and near knives.
Charles Dickens
#49. But God also helped those who helped themselves, and presumably expected the chosen to bring warm clothing, water purification tablets, basic medication, a weapon such as the bronze knives that were selling these days, possibly a tent - in short, to bring some common sense to the party.
Terry Pratchett
#50. Your daughter is doing well here. I've been overseeing her training."
Since when does "overseeing" include throwing knives at me and scolding me at every opportunity?
Veronica Roth
#51. ...this is how politics is played. With fakery and false smiles and butcher knives to the back.
Emma Chase
#52. Several people toss and turn in their sleep, startled by the lines of the newspapers in their dreams, knives out, lights out, lights out, knives out!
H.C. Artmann
#54. Women hold their councils of war in kitchens: the knives are there, and the cups of coffee, and the towels to dry the tears.
Patricia A. McKillip
#55. She loves. And she doesn't know how to pull it back when you have to, because sometimes you sure as feck have to. Got to grab it up with both hands and pull it back before somebody turns into knives and uses it to cut you to pieces.
Karen Marie Moning
#56. His arms went round my waist. He had a big grin, full of teeth like stars. "You saying you're the jealous sort,Scar?"
"I'm saying that some girls slap, but I have knives.
A.C. Gaughen
#57. Way over half the murders committed in this country are by close friends or relatives of the deceased. A gun makes a loud and satisfying noise in a moment of passion and requires no agility and very little strength. How many murders wouldn't happen, if they all had to use hammers and knives?
John D. MacDonald
#58. Nicci looked up at Kahlan. "Knives are not my talent." "It's not hard," Kahlan said as she pressed the handle into Nicci's hand. "When the time is right, just stick the pointed end somewhere important in someone you really don't like.
Terry Goodkind
#59. Knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do.
Leigh Bardugo
#60. That's not entirely true." He smiles at me. "That girl who let someone throw knives at her to spare a friend, who hit my dad with
a belt to protect me - that selfless girl, that's not you?
Veronica Roth
#61. What on earth is his hold over you? Did he threaten you? Beat you up? You know, I could help if he injured you - "
"Dearie, we owe 'im our lives." I gaped at them, certain I was mishearing. Perhaps they owed him their wives? Knives?
Tarun Shanker
#62. If you see someone lying out knives and forks consistently, but then one day those knives and forks become weapons you're not sure if he does that as a warrior, that's just his thing.
Antoine Fuqua
#63. Crokus jumped at a faint plopping sound from the stairwell. He laid his hands on his knives, tensing.
Steven Erikson
#64. I do not have a merchandise line. I don't sell knives or apparel. Though I have been approached to endorse various products from liquor to airlines to automobiles to pharmaceuticals dozens of times, I have managed to resist the temptation.
Anthony Bourdain
#65. People in West Virginia do have cars. We have indoor plumbing. We even use knives and forks.
John Kruk
#66. You know I could go for a sandwich, but uh, I'm not gonna open two jars. I can't be opening and closing all kinds of jars. And who knows how many knives!
Brian Regan
#67. I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.
Billy Connolly
#68. Leaving us with Eric is like hiring a babysitter who spends his time sharpening knives.
Veronica Roth
#69. The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#70. I tried to think what I had loved knives for, but my mind slipped from the noose of the thought and swung, like a bird, in the centre of empty air.
Sylvia Plath
#71. I probably use my chef's knives more than any other tool in the kitchen. I'm not married to a particular brand, because they all work, they all have sharp blades.
Bobby Flay
#72. Men can't be trusted with pruning shears any more than they can be trusted with the grocery money in a delicatessen ... They are like boys with new pocket knives who will not stop whittling.
Phyllis McGinley
#73. I was reminded again that there are so many things we need that can also hurt us: cars, knives, grown-ups.
Lena Dunham
#74. Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
Bertolt Brecht
#75. I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.
Leigh Bardugo
#76. At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.
Robert Farrar Capon
#77. You bought me some forks. And knives. And spoons. Because you love me!
Sarah Dessen
#78. he will then deliver a totally redundant speech about all the things you're not allowed to take inside: scissors, swords, knives, guns, bombs, ballistic missiles, tactical nuclear weapons, etc. Then you
Craig Cross
#79. Purled and meandering lines drawn by knives; brain and bone exposed by stones; the rope still digging at his throat.
Ransom Riggs
#81. Books are to the mind as the whetstone for the knives.
Aman Jassal
#82. The street resembled fairgrounds deserted in haste. There was a little of everything: suitcases, briefcases, bags, knives, dishes, banknotes, papers, faded portraits. All the things one planned to take along and finally left behind. They had ceased to matter.
Elie Wiesel
#83. He kept his tippet stuffed with pins for curls, And pocket-knives, to give to pretty girls.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#84. I did telemarketing for years, starting at the age of 16, just selling steak knives to old people. Old people go through a weird amount of steak knives. I also sold straight meat over the telephone.
Adam DeVine
#85. Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods - Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ.
Oscar Wilde
#86. Wake up, Astrid. Your psychotic criminal is playing with knives. (Sasha)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#87. After they were both done, the pile of knives and guns on the coffee table looked like they'd cleaned out an armory. I think we have a problem, Dmitri.
Nalini Singh
#88. Most fathers don't show up with hand grenades and bowie knives."
"They should be ashamed of themselves," Jake said.
Janet Evanovich
#89. I know electric knives are excellent for carving turkeys that have had their bones removed and been forced into a mold to shape them. Please note that those turkeys are called hams.
John Hodgman
#90. The feast was seen everywhere and in everything. Some women in semi-dresses were busy doing many things at once. Domestic animals were crying their last, with knives on their throats. They too were celebrating the feast in their own ways.Pg.93
Obehi Peter Ewanfoh
#91. Andre had never mastered the art of ironing. He usually ironed more wrinkles in than out. Pistols, knives, and explosives he could handle, but put a hot iron in his hands and chances were that he'd get hurt.
Toby Joyce
#92. Facing them (men) with knives and spears was much easier than loving them, much easier.
Robert Jordan
#93. I'm a ninja! I like swords and knives and stuff like that.
Isaiah Mustafa
#94. Don't give me your knives. Don't give up. Don't you dare give up.
Jennifer Estep
#95. I've had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower I can't quite make out what it is. It takes time.
Charles Bukowski
#96. Her tender feet felt as if cut with sharp knives, but she cared not for it; a sharper pang had pierced through her heart.
Hans Christian Andersen
#97. Guns kill far more quickly and efficiently than knives, or crossbows, or toenail clippers; and, unlike bombs, you don't need to build one in your basement
they come ready-made! There's a reason why guns are the overwhelming weapon of choice among mass murderers.
Quentin R. Bufogle
#98. Knowing that she was beautiful, she felt convinced, though in an indistinct way, that she had a weapon. Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.
Victor Hugo
#99. I am unarmed. But Butler here, my ... ah ... butler, has a Sig Saucer in his shoulder holster, two shrike-throwing knives in his boots, aderringer two-shot up his sleeve, garrotte wire in his watch, and three stun greanades concealed in variouse pockets. Anything else, Butler?
Eoin Colfer
#100. I could juggle anything in my day. Balls, cigar boxes, knives ... But there was one thing I could never juggle. My income tax.
W.C. Fields
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