Knife Play

Famous quotes containing the words knife and/or play:

    “When she, and though some said she played
    I said that she had danced heart’s truth,
    Drew a knife to strike him dead,
    I could but leave him to his fate;
    For, no matter what is said,
    They had all that had their hate....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “There are men from whom nature or some peculiar destiny has removed the cover beneath which we hide our own madness. They are like thin-skinned insects whose visible play of muscles seem to make them deformed, though in fact, everything soon turns to its normal shape again.”
    —E.T.A.W. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Wilhelm)