“Word - that invisible dagger.”
Emile M. Cioran
“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.”
“The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin”
Alexander Cockburn
“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
