(239 quotes found)
“The coward threatens when he is safe”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold the burning fuse up to the phone. "Hear that?" you say. "That's dynamite, baby."”
Jack Handy
“An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“He who spares the guilty threatens the innocent”
Legal Maxim
“It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. I have seen enough of it to make me look upon it as the sum of all evils.”
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
“The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.”
David Mamet
“World War I, that tiresome European engagement that threatened to close down French couture.”
Caroline Seebohm
“When Fortune means to men most good,She looks upon them with a threatening eye.”
William Shakespeare
“In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us.”
“Who punishes one threatens a hundred”
French Proverb
