Knives

Famous quotes containing the word knives:

“We do not wish to injure you.... But if you again plunge your knives into the breasts of our people, I shall send a force which will severely punish you for your cruelties.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)

“Through open doors, the dining-room declares
A larger loneliness of knives and glass
And silence laid like carpet.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.”
—E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)