Dagger Cannon Fire

Famous quotes containing the words dagger, cannon and/or fire:

    “Is this a dagger which I see before me,
    The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
    I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
    Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
    To feeling as to sight? Or art thou but
    A dagger of the mind, a false creation
    Proceeding from the heat-oppressèd brain?”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again!
    The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “The wound that’s made by fire will heal,
    But the wound that’s made by tongue will never heal.”
    —Tiruvalluvar (c. 5th century A.D.)