Quotes with dagger

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• A candour affected is a dagger concealed.

  Marcus Aurelius
  Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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• A man renowned for repartee will seldom scruple to make free with friendship's finest feeling, will thrust a dagger at your breast, and say he wounded you in jest, by way of balm for healing.

  William Cowper
  English poet (1731 - 1800)
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• Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.

  E. M. Cioran
  French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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• Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.

  Samuel Johnson
  English writer (1709 - 1784)
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• Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.

  Benito Mussolini
  Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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• The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.
  

  Thomas Paine
  English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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• The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin.

  Alexander Cockburn
  Irish-American political journalist and writer (1941 - 2012)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• consciousness
• faithless
• repartee
• midnight
• murderer
• infinite

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