Top 46 Would Be Assassin Quotes
#1. President Bush was once asked which Presidential speech he admired most. He replied that it was the one Teddy Roosevelt had in his pocket that had helped cushion the blow of a would-be assassin's bullet.
Maureen Dowd
#3. God, who might have directed the assassin's dagger so as to end your career in a moment, has given you this quarter of an hour for repentance. Reflect, then, wretched man, and repent.
Alexandre Dumas
#4. Did you know?" I snarled. "Did you help take my father and corrupt my life?
Oliver Bowden
#5. For a moment, she wasn't Mia Corvere, daughter of a murdered house, parched with the thirst for revenge. Not a fledgling assassin or a servant of a goddess. Just a girl. And he a boy. Their eyes blind to all but each other. Aalea's voice echoing in her ears.
Jay Kristoff
#6. War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#7. Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin. It leaves him free to commit the same deed over and over again, and may, indeed, win him the honors of a hero in the country of his victims.
Alan Barth
#8. Embelish your flaws. They will turn into your assets. And if you become one of us, I will teach you to wield them like an assassin wields a knife.
Marie Lu
#9. Fortunately for Alan's sake, Frank preferred beauty over age so I had no need to defend my territory.
Nicole Castle
#10. You want to come back to the bank vault?" Jack says.
The bank vault. That's what Jack calls his house.
Allen Zadoff
#11. When asked my advice as I stroll through the town,
"A good lady knows how to take a political assassin down.
Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney
#12. I was no assassin. I got out during the amnesty because I had not committed any violent crimes.
Jose Mujica
#13. Please accept my apologies, lass. I should nae have been so forward, but I've been wanting to kiss ye.
Victoria Roberts
#14. Sometimes death is natural, a mercy that puts an end to suffering. But all too often it comes as an assassin, full of senseless cruelty and lacking any vestige of compassion.
Stephen King
#15. Why is the Rockefeller Commission so Single-Minded About a Lone Assassin in the Kennedy Case?,
Cyril Wecht
#17. The cops got out of the car and came straight towards me. My first thought was, How hypocritical ... They head straight for the kid all in black ...
Bella Shadow
#18. Fine, it's decided." Vain resumed his stride. "I'll do all the killing, and you do
all the stuff that an Avun-Riah does. Whatever the hell that is.
Luke Romyn
#19. It would be either a very skilled or very unwise man to steal from an assassin." - Taliesin
Sabrina Zbasnik
#20. I didn't know I was about to be left with her idea of me; with her idea of my goodness pinned onto me like a badge and no chance to throw it back at her (as would have been the normal course of affairs with a mother and a daughter - if she'd lived, as I'd grown older).
Margaret Atwood
#21. And now, the very thing that had earned her the right to call herself Adarlan's Assassin would be what sealed her doom.
Sarah J. Maas
#22. Nathan reached out to Hunter, Clasping the former assassin's hand in a firm shake. "I understand now," Nathan said. "I didn't know it would be possible to feel-" The massive warrior only nodded. No need for more words.
Lara Adrian
#23. Something like 'The Matrix' would be ideal, something where it's super agents and wire work and special effects - not necessarily running from bombs and shooting people. Something more sleek, like an assassin.
Nadine Velazquez
#24. I dropped the bug with a shudder. 'Is that why Mab wants me?' I asked Ash, who still stood a few feet away. 'As a weapon?'
'Ridiculous isn't it?' Grimalkin purred. 'She cannot even use glamour. She would be a horrible assassin.
Julie Kagawa
#25. I am a blade of silver, a sickle of ice - Assassin Ghe, old assassin mantra
Greg Keyes
#26. I'm impressed you got up here so quickly - and without a pack of court ladies hounding after you. Perhaps you should try your hand at being an assassin." He shook the hair out of his face.
"I'm not interested in court ladies," he said thickly, and kissed her.
Sarah J. Maas
#27. Yes Rosalie, we all know how proficient of an assassin you are.
Stephenie Meyer
#28. The ancestral voices were prophesying war because ancestral voices never shut up, and they hate to be wrong, and war is a sure thing, sooner or later.
Margaret Atwood
#29. Kieran unfolded the letter and scanned the scrawled message....
'Beware an English assassin.'
He knew exactly what this meant.
Madeline Martin
#30. But I was in this bowling league with a good number of friends who came from across the line. We got the phone call that the border had been closed, and that absolutely nobody was being allowed to cross
not parents, not children, not anybody. Who knew what disguise the assassin had used.
Alberto Alvaro Rios
#31. I wondered what the FML post would look like.
"Today, when my father tried to shoot me, I found out he was an assassin monger who's been keeping my mom locked away in a secret facility for freaky killers. FML."
Seriously. F.M.L.
Jus Accardo
#32. M.T. Stone was the poster boy for what an assassin should look like.
Mary Buckham
#33. When Abraham Lincoln was murdered The one thing that interested Matthew Arnold Was that the assassin shouted in Latin As he lept on the stage This convinced Matthew There was still hope for America.
Christopher Morley
#34. I name you Elentiya." She kissed the assassin's brow. "I give you this name to use with honour, to use when other names grow too heavy. I name you Elentiya, 'Spirit That Could Not Be Broken.
Sarah J. Maas
#35. You do realize that the cost of that bracelet is within spitting distance of my going rate as an assassin, right?"
"You mean your going rate back when you were actually killing people for money," Finn said. "Or as I like to call them - the good ole days.
Jennifer Estep
#36. I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.
Robin Hobb
#37. The life that you are about to embrace is not that of a soldier or a commando. It is the way of the assassin.
Shatrujeet Nath
#38. You look as if you're planning my untimely death."
[...]
"You have a problem though - I'm your top assassin by far, and I don't work for you any more.
Eve Ocotillo
#39. The world didn't need an assassin with a coward's heart. It needed someone like Nehemia.
Sarah J. Maas
#40. I've always wondered though," Orn mused aloud, "what does God need with a starship?"
"Are you going to make that stupid quip every time we pass a missionary ship?"
"Until they learn a new position.
Sabrina Zbasnik
#41. Every Assassin knew that real black often stood out in the dark, because the night in the city is usually never full black, and that gray or dark green merge much better. But they wore black anyway, because style trumps utility every time.
Terry Pratchett
#42. Tapping a finger against the flesh of her elbow, she deadpanned, Jacin Clay, there is an assassin under my bed.
Marissa Meyer
#43. I mean, if my phone is trying to kill me then that crazy X-ray machine at airport security is a straight-up assassin.
Amy Poehler
#44. Officer Patrick Killion had called him to say he was following a lead on the assassin who'd killed the Vice President.
Toni Anderson
#45. Roland gave her a courtier's smile. "And what sort of work do you do for my uncle?
"
Dorian shifted on his feet and Chaol went very still, but Celaena returned Roland's smile and said, "I bury the king's opponents where nobody will ever find them.
Sarah J. Maas
