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«Wit is a treacherous dart. It is perhaps the only weapon with which it is possible to stab oneself in one's own back.»
«To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee»
«Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.»
«There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer /committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.»
«You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword»
«It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day.»
«Anyone who can be proved to be a seditious person is an outlaw before God and the emperor; and whoever is the first to put him to death does right and well. Therefore let everyone who can, smite, slay and stab, secretly or openly, remembering that nothing can be more poisonous, hurtful, or devilish than a rebel.»
«True friends stab you in the front.»
«He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
best friend, epigram, stab, tombstone
«Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
human health, human society, liar, stab, stabbing, stabs, suicide, violation, violations
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