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You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess. -- H. G. Wells
Fear not the phantom of death, My Countrymen, for his greatnessAnd mercy will refuse to approachYour smallness; and dread not the Dagger, for it will decline to beLodged in your shallow hearts. -- Kahlil Gibran
I was just wondering if you were armed. You want anything? Dagger, maybe?" He opened his own suit jacket just a bit, and Simon saw something long an metallic glinting against the inside lining. "No wonder you and Jace like each other so much. You're both crazy walking arsenals. -- Cassandra Clare
Word - that invisible dagger. -- Emile M. Cioran
The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy. -- Thomas Paine
Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh. -- Emile M. Cioran
The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin. -- Alexander Cockburn
When I was young, I was trained in stage fighting and rapier and dagger for several years. -- Suzanne Collins
The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide. -- Margaret Cho
Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts. -- Benito Mussolini
In 2007 the 'dagger' of an idea that killed President Bush's effort at reforming the immigration system was lax border security. -- Juan Williams
Homeland' is a thriller with a lot of cloak and dagger spy stuff, which is one of the things that makes it so much fun. -- Adam Rayner
I realized that we were all sort of conspiring, well, not conspiring against each other, but all this cloak and dagger stuff and I was like; what is this? -- Eric San
How do you solve a mystery? How do you write a book? The techniques for starting both are surprisingly similar. Find an intriguing question and, pen and dagger tucked under cloak, search for clues. -- Claire Cameron
And there had to be a dagger thrust in the heart of the left to tell them that you are no longer gonna give five years for a Smith Act prosecution or one year for Contempt of Court, but we're gonna kill ya! -- Julius Rosenberg
You drove a dagger through my back, Elena. It hurt. -- Rebecca
Familiarity is the dagger thrust into the heart of fear. -- Todd Stocker
Folded hands may conceal a dagger --Likewise a foe's tears. -- Thiruvalluvar
Fear is a dagger with which hypocrisy assassinates the soul. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
When my heart bleeds, it needs no stab with the dagger. -- Kristian Goldmund Aumann
The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
A road is a dagger placed in the heart of a wilderness. -- William O. Douglas
Thou you thrust your dagger at my eye, I will not flinch. -- Lynn Flewelling
Kindness is my weapon of choice. My second is a Semmian dagger. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
Time is but a phantom dagger That motion lifts to slay itself. -- Maxwell Bodenheim
Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? -- William Shakespeare
In a political struggle, never get personal - else the dagger digs too deep. -- Jack Valenti
The soul, secured in her existence, smiles At the drawn dagger, and defies its point. -- Joseph Addison
The dagger plunged in the name of freedom is plunged into the breast of freedom. -- Jose Marti
...but hope seduces like a silver tongue, double-edged like a dagger that cuts both ways. -- Charlie Fletcher
The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge. -- Lord Acton
Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth. -- William Shakespeare
The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
His dagger was out, poised at her throat. "Sing, little bird. Sing for your little life. -- George R. R. Martin
... reading was hardly as practical a skill as being able to handle a dagger or use Allomancy? -- Brandon Sanderson
Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? -- William Shakespeare
Remember, Shaw, that the power of the dagger lies not only in the visual, but also the symbolic. -- Carla Trueheart
That was my favorite dagger." She had a favorite dagger? Seriously? And she thought that I was a freak. -- Jennifer Estep
You touch her, and I will take that dagger at your side and cut your heart out with it. (Julian) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Sony has engaged in a technological version of cloak and dagger deceit against consumers by hiding secret files on their computers -- Greg Abbott
She looked at him and felt a dagger pierce her heart, then she felt a warm chocolate feeling swallow her senses. -- Isabelle Hardesty
The truth is not in the commercial media because the truth is a dagger pointed at its heart, which is its pocketbook. -- George Seldes
...a third [of three] had died in his bunk of natural causes--for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one's life. -- R. A. Salvatore
As I lifted the ash dagger, something inside me fractured so completely that there would be no hope of ever repairing it. -- Sarah J. Maas
My poems are like a dagger Sprouting flowers from the hilt; My poetry is like a fountain Sprinkling streams of coral water. -- Jose Marti
MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal. -- Ambrose Bierce
...and - holy shit was this song bad. It was like the singer was stabbing my ear with a dagger made of dried turds. -- David Wong
Think about it. He drinks poison. What kind of man drinks poison? She is the one who stabs herself with his dagger. The manly way. -- Anne Fortier
Yet have I ever heard it said that spies and tale-bearers have done more mischief in this world than poisoned bowl or the assassin's dagger. -- Friedrich Schiller
The police seemed to think I killed her, which is crazy, because I loved her like a thousand drops of blood dripping down a dagger. -- Jarod Kintz
Glad you're back to normal. The makeup and the dress were a lot more intimidating than the dagger." "Get going, Sparky, before I skewer you." "Sparky? -- Rick Riordan
To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin -- Tryon Edwards
I would rather my enemy's sword pierce my heart then my friend's dagger stab me in the back." Faustus - Don't Talk Back To Your Vampire -- Michele Bardsley
The theft potentially of data does create this image of sort of cloak and dagger politics that we sort of imagine when we think of underhanded politics. -- Tamara Keith
A curve of silver hung amid the brighter specks; it looked to me like a curved dagger, pretty but deadly, as if it might slice the sky in two. -- Ann Aguirre
You promised you would protect her Nico said. He might as well have stabbed me with a rusty dagger.It would've hurt less than reminding me of my promise. -- Rick Riordan
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
To date, treasure-hunters have followed up clue after clue, including a dagger-marked tree, to no avail. If there is a fortune buried in Handcart Gulch, it is still safely hidden -- Phyllis Flanders Dorset
Which meant his only assets were one whiny imprisoned goddess, one sort-of-girlfriend with a dagger, and Leo, who apparently thought he could defeat the armies of darkness with breath mints. -- Rick Riordan
A dagger is the noble weapon of Brutus. Everyone understands that tyrants fall to daggers. A bomb is a sordid modern device with many complex working parts. Only engineers understand bombs -- Bruce Sterling
Edward stretched out his arm, his hand curled into a fist. Seth grinned, revealing the long row of dagger teeth, and bumped his nose against Edward's hand. "Nice teamwork," Edward murmured. -- Stephenie Meyer
Someone who wants to attain enlightenment must be brave. He must rush into the crowd of enemies with a dagger. In the practice of Zen, enemies are our delusive thoughts and passions. -- Yamada Koun
We are not wounded so deeply when betrayed by the things we hope for as when betrayed by things we try our best to despise. In such betrayal comes the dagger in the back. -- Yukio Mishima
The ruling family in Kuwait is good at blackmail, exploitation, and destruction of their opponents. They had perpetuated a grave U.S. conspiracy against us.... stabbing Iraq in the back with a poisoned dagger. -- Saddam Hussein
The samurais lived with death constantly. They wore a short dagger to take their own life if need be. At any moment they might have to do that, it was a part of their code. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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

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