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Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
You will never know how sharp a sword is unless it's drawn from its sheath
The words of the double-tongued are as if they were harmless, but they reach even to the inner part of the bowels. Praise be to the Lord, who distinguishes our cause and delivers us from the unjust and deceitful man.
The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's.
You've got to S-M-I-L-E
To be H-A-Double-P-Y
There are certain things in which we so rarely meet with our double that it seems a miracle when that chance befalls.
Some carry beautifully crafted swords all their lives, and never realise, until they are daubed in blood, that the pleasure comes not from owning a sword, no matter how perfect, but from letting it cut.
Did you know the pen is stronger than the knife: they can kill you once but they can't kill you twice.
The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing.
The truth between two people always cuts two ways.
Double of wife , mean you a live Double of life.
Once lucky, twice confident, and thrice dead.
A phrase is born into the world both good and bad at the same time. The secret lies in a slight, an almost invisible twist. The lever should rest in your hand, getting warm, and you can only turn it once, not twice.
There were people in the world who, for all their gruff arrogance, can, with scarcely a few notes, easily persuade you they are inherently kind, candid, and vulnerable - with unsettling reminders, though, that their ability to flip from one to the other is what ultimately makes them deadly.
Where there is reflection, there is either double beauty or double ugliness!
And, my brothers, it was real satisfaction to me to waltz-left two three, right two three-and carve left cheeky and right cheeky, so that like two curtains of blood seemed to pour out at the same time, one on either side of his fat filthy oily snout in the winter starlight.
It is one thing to train in the yard with a blunted sword in hand, and another to drive a foot of sharpened steel into a man's gut and see light go out of his eyes.
If life is a battle, then my inner scars are medals for valor, for swiftness, for courage, for passion. Evil is the dark-haired brother of Good; they walk hand in hand - always.
A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.
You must learn how to become a deeply disciplined half-ass.
As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another
Once it has learned to dream the double, the self arrives at this weird crossroad and a moment comes when one realizes that it is the double who dreams the self.
A knife may scar a body, but a careless word will wound a soul.
I have no physical courage, I've asked for a double.
Oo, you are so sharp you'll cut yourself one of these days
I wish I could see outta two eyes.
The strongest soldier cannot balance long upon the blade that does divide his honor and his heart, and whatever way he falls, the cut will kill him.
Double-mindedness means the faculty of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind and accepting both of them. We talk out of both corners of our mouths at once.
Her beauty was like the edge of a very sharp knife.
Oh love and hate are two sides of the same blade
The Cutter leaned toward me, resting his forehead against mine. 'Fool me once,' he whispered, 'shame on you.' He pressed the bridge of his nose against mine, his breath burning the back of my throat. His voice was rough and furious. 'Fool me twice, and I will cut out your fucking throat.
He who crosses the ocean twice without washing is a dirty double crosser.
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
I know you're a great fencer, but I've been told your wit is even sharper than your sword. So much so in fact, that you only use your sword upon your friends, as your wit is far too deadly.
a strong arm kills but a cunning mind keeps you alive
The eloquence of the pen is just as sharp as the point of a sword.
It is with wits as with razors, which are never so apt to cut those they are employed on as when they have lost their edge.
make words your finest weapons - a gold-hilted sword to cut your enemies d
Choosing between dull and dishonest is like being asked whether you want to be shot or stabbed. "What
Information can be such a double-edged sword.
A hand with a sword is a dirty hand; a man with a gun is a coward man.
You may need two hands to fight someone, but only one to stab them in the back. (Yarvi)
There's no blade sharper than the truth under the Sun, it's enlightens the mind, releases the captives, condemns the guilty and spares the innocent; it's the only weapon a hero ever needs to fight a war, the one which is conducted without a need of any Iron blade!
It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
Lovely," Nellie whispered. "A double-crosser wouldn't spend all this time gardening and planting flowers, would they?"
...
Sinead Starling opened the door.
"Ah," Nellie said. "I guess I was wrong.
There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
Sever the edge between before and after.
Never half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing
Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.
The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.
My job as a double was always to put [actors] at ease. My job was to make my character, or the actress that I was doubling, look as badass as possible by being there.
A knife is cutlery in one hand and a weapon in another.
One word can sometimes be sharper than a thousand swords
Life and death are balanced on the edge of a razor.
make you see double and feel single!
I never knew words could be so sharp, until the wrong ones cut me
dangerous weapon
Two sides of the same coin, but which side is which?
Not all weapons are guns or blades; the most dangerous are subtle, hidden.
You can see a rose both in two ways. First, through its beautiful petals. The other, through its thorns
The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor.
You can't triple stamp a double stamp!
Straight edge means I'm better than you.
'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
My new knight mistress is famed for wielding sharp edges: Sword, Knife and Tongue!
Trying to double talk, get myself in trouble talk.
It's the dull knife that cuts you.
The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause.
walking, as it were, on a razor's edge,
Sharpness is a bourgeois concept
Like a butcher sharpening knife on knife
I sharpen heart on heart inside me.
I have been cut in two.Cut-- Anne Sexton
Sharpened by hate. Strengthened by love.
Women's Tongues are as sharp as two-edged Swords, and wound as much, when they are anger'd.
But twice-two-makes-four is for all that a most insupportable thing. Twice-two-makes-four is, in my humble opinion, nothing but a piece of impudence. Twice-two-makes-four is a farcical, dressed-up fellow who stands across your path with arms akimbo and spits at you.
Push out a bayonet. If it strikes fat, push deeper. If it strikes iron, pull back for another day.
Be careful with your knives baby, use them before anyone can use them against you. Nan-The Otherside
Sharpness is overrated.
Wisdom accepts that all things have two sides
If you handle truth carelessly, it will cut your fingers.
My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can't imagine how often I've tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne - to beat her down, hide her.
Only in the struggle between two philosophies can the weapon of brutal force, persistently and ruthlessly applied, lead to a decision for the side it supports.
You know, Miss Bard, there is such a thing as being sharp enough to cut yourself.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but two lefts do make a U-Turn
I know on which side my bread is buttered.
The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts.
[The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
There ain't half been some clever bastards
The truth is a blade and where it cuts, it hurts.
Thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most sharp sauce.
The knife is more dangerous than the hand and the knife can be in either hand.
You don't need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
If one twin is cut, the other will bleed
life is a knife and it stabs
Sharp are the arrows of a broken heart.
Right and wrong can be like bloody snakes: so tangled that you can't tell which is which until you've shot them both, and then it's too late.
While stabbing someones back, you recklessly expose your own.
We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.
knife in my hand.
He'd fashioned himself into one hard edge. He was all blade and no handle. If she held him close, she'd risk being cut.
Once bitten, twice shy. Once caring, twice cry.
Once beloved, can't deny - heart broken, twice die.