Sharp Quotes

“You can only sharpen a blade so far,” Kaz said as he joined them at the front of the church. “In the end, it comes down to the quality of the metal.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintace. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter nights.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

“Be careful you don't cut yourself. The edges are sharp enough to shave with.'
'Girls don't shave', Arya said.
'Maybe they should. Have you ever seen the septa's legs?”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“I'm a girl."
When Deryn opened her eyes, the lady boffin was staring at her with no change of expression.
"Indeed," she said.
Deryn's mouth feel open. "You mean you...Did you barkingknow?"
"I had no idea at all. But I make it a policy never to appear surprised." Dr. Barlow sighed, staring out the window. "Though on this occasion, it is proving rather more demanding than usual. A girl, you say? And you're quite certain?”
― Scott Westerfeld, Goliath

“-" He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful. "

- "It was stupid.”
― Lloyd Alexander, Westmark

“And it's really very difficult to kill someone when all your inner instincts would oblige you to take off your hat first!”
― Susan Kay, Phantom

“Being smart as a whip includes knowing when not to crack it.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“I was supposed to have an edge. But sharp-edged girls had feelings, too.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Make sure it is God's trumpet you are blowing-
if it is only yours it won't wake the dead,
it will simply disturb the neighbours.”
― W. Ian Thomas

“Partly I was honing my self-consciousness into a torture device, sharp and efficient enough to last me the rest of my life.”
― Lucy Grealy, Autobiography of a Face

“Nothing’s boring if it’s in your soul…”
― David Drake, The Sharp End

“One must always keep the tools of statecraft sharp and ready. Power and fear – sharp and ready.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Advantages never comes free. You have to create it the way you want it!”
― Ashish Patel

“Her beauty was enough to get her into most any situation she desired and her tongue—sharp and venomous—was enough to get her out again.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)

“I don’t need immortality. The fear of death keeps a girl sharp.”
― C.M. Hayden, The Stars That Form Us

“He was a thousand cuts happening all at once. Devastation made of hair as blue as dark ocean waves, and lips sharp as cracked glass that would delightedly cut her.”
― Stephanie Garber, Once Upon a Broken Heart

“The most sharper device than a knife is a tongue”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“In some ways it began when I heard her singing
her voice twinning with my own
Her Voice was like a portrait of her soul
Wild as a fire, sharp as a shattered glass
Sweet and clean as clover”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“A partial truth. The worst kind of lie because it slides so smoothly down the gullet.
Here is what actually happened that night. Swallow with care. You'll find my version has had none of its sharp edges removed...”
― Cassie Beasley, Tumble & Blue

“There is no razor sharper than that of words.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“There is the head of the axe and the head of him who wields it. And if both are sharp, the size of the axe and the height of the tree doesn’t matter.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When you're right and sharp no storm will cut you and nor lightening.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“Her words were like knives to his conscience, and as much as avarice dulled their blades, her tongue sharpened them.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Hopebreaker

“Yet faith is sharper than your vision, the blunder will be your goal”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Solitude is like a sharpener. It makes you rotate against the blade edge shaving away your worn surfaces. Eventually, you come out sharp and dandy.”
― Anoir Ou-Chad

“Careful with sharp things”
― Dennis Williams

“Must read…five amazing stories based on five very different women in five very different situations….a read you won’t forget in a hurry”
― Darren Moore, Five Incredible Short Stories

“The past was filled with sharp things, he'd said.”
― Stuart Turton, The Devil and the Dark Water

“After all, vampires know better than anyone how important it is to protect their hearts.

And love, understand, is sharper than any stake.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“The most sharp people are the frank ones in times of hypocrisy.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih