(64 quotes found)
“Just as women’s bodies are softer than men’s, so their understanding is sharper.”
Christine de Pisan
“How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child”
William Shakespeare
“Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life”
Charles Lamb
“The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use”
Washington Irving
“At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout.”
Edmund Wilson
“The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.”
Walter Benjamin
“No, 'tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath Rides on the posting winds and doth belie All corners of the world; kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the”
“Envy's a sharper spur than pay”
John Gay
“I think the average Jew is probably sharper intellectually than the average gentile, because for years and years he's had to live by his wits. Consequently, there has evolved a race of Jews who are more agile mentally than the rest of us.”
George Lincoln Rockwell
“One eye in the corner is sharper than two about the house.”
Irish Proverb
