(427 quotes found)
“The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.”
Buddha
“Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick”
Proverb
“Then suddenly out of the gloom came a sharp hiss. 'What has it got in its pocketses?'”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp”
Terry Pratchett
“The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.”
Ovid
“Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.”
Mao Tse-Tung
“A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.”
Washington Irving
“...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
“Business life, whether among ourselves or with other people, is even a sharp struggle for success. It will be none the less so in the future. Without competition we would be clinging to the clumsy antiquated processes of farming and manufacture and the methods of business of long ago, and the twentieth would be no further advanced than the eighteenth century.”
William McKinley
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