(437 quotes found)
“The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.”
Buddha
“Then suddenly out of the gloom came a sharp hiss. 'What has it got in its pocketses?'”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick”
Proverb
“The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp”
Terry Pratchett
“...occasionally I wished I could walk through a picture window and have the sharp, broken shards slash me to ribbons so I would finally look like I felt.”
Elizabeth Wurtzel
“It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue.”
George W. Bush
“Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.”
Mao Tse-Tung
“The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.”
Ovid
“A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.”
Washington Irving
“I have desired to go / Where springs not fail, / To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail / And a few lilies blow,”
Gerard Manley Hopkins
