Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes, Knives Quotes, Losing Quotes

His fine wit Makes such a wound, the knife is lost in it.

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Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, a south wind, not an east wind.

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PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him. For purposes of humor it is popularly called a trunk.

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The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher's knife.

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Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner. BENEDICK Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains. BEATRICE I took no more pains for those thanks than you take pains to thank me: if it had been painful, I would not have come. BENEDICK You take pleasure then in the message? BEATRICE Yea, just so much as you may take upon a knife's point ... You have no stomach, signior: fare you well. Exit BENEDICK Ha! 'Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner;' there's a double meaning in that... (Much Ado About Nothing)

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If i get 8 hours to cut a tree i'll spend 7 hours to sharp my knife.

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It is yet another Civilized Power, with its banner of the Prince of Peace in one hand and its loot-basket and its butcher-knife in the other. Is there no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level?.

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If the lambs of the world had been willingly led, they would have long ago saved themselves from the butcher's knife.

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First try all other means, but if the wound Heal not, then use the knife, lest to the clean From the diseased the canker spread.

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Take heed, dear heart, of this large privilege; The hardest knife ill-used doth lose his edge.

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Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.

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