“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
“The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin”
Alexander Cockburn
“There's daggers in men's smiles”
William Shakespeare
“Let me be cruel, not unnatural;I will speak daggers to her, but use none.”
“O happy dagger!This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die.”
“Word - that invisible dagger.”
Emile M. Cioran
