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Quotes About Sharpness

The more real it is, the funnier it is. The more awkward it is, the more people are stumbly, the funnier it is. I like a sharp joke, but it has to say something that someone would actually say.
~ Nicholas Stoller
I'm no genius, but I'm smart in spots, and I stay around those spots.
~ Tom Watson
with all the sweetness of a chocolate-coated razor-blade.
~ Kerry Greenwood
Una cosa es ser listo y otra ser inteligente.
~ George R R Martin
Mi mejor arma está en el cerebro. Mi hermano tiene su espada, el rey Robert tiene su maza, y yo tengo mi mente... Pero una mente necesita de los libros igual que una espada de una piedra de amolar, para conservar el filo. Por eso leo tanto, Jon Nieve.
~ George R.R. Martin
First rule, stick them with the pointy end!
~ George R.R. Martin
A Stone Crow's axe is always sharp, and Shagga's axes are sharpest of all. Once I cut off a man's head, but he did not know it until he tried to brush his hair. Then it fell off." "Is that why you never brush yours?" The Stone Crows roared and stamped their feet, Shagga hooting loudest of all.
~ George R.R. Martin
My mind is my weapon. My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have my mind … and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.
~ George R.R. Martin
My mind is my weapon. My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have my mind … and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge." Tyrion tapped the leather cover of the book. "That's why I read so much, Jon Snow.
~ George R.R. Martin
Nothing holds an edge like Valyrian steel,
~ George R.R. Martin
Why, despite the blinding brightness, did everything look gray? It was as if the painfully sharp lights were helpless to dispel all the darkness the people had brought in from the night outside.
~ Georges Simenon
Brevity is the soul of wit.
~ William Shakespeare
Rehv cleared his throat. "What book is that?" The Moor looked up, his almond-shaped eyes focusing with a sharpness Rehv could have done without. "You're awake." "What book?" "It's The Shadow Death Lexicon." "Light reading. And here I thought you were a Candace Bushnell fan.
~ J.R. Ward
I'm very proud that I'm smart enough to get to the point
~ Harry S. Truman
A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice.
~ Zoroaster
talented wisecracker.…
~ Nelson DeMille
That was always the trouble with you," Steele murmured. "You're so damned smart. You observe everything.
~ Christine Feehan
Wit, after all, is the unfailing symptom of intelligence.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Sé onr sverdar sitja hvass!
~ Christopher Paolini
Sprache ist eine Waffe. Haltet sie scharf.
~ Kurt Tucholsky
As if you have discovered a beach you have been visiting all your life is made not of sand but of diamonds, and they blind you with their beauty." Diamonds might be blinding in their beauty, but they were also the hardest and sharpest gems in the world. They could cut you or grind you down, smash and slice you apart. Malcolm, deranged with love, had not thought of that. But Julian could think of nothing else.
~ Cassandra Clare
I remember stating that humour was the poor cousin of wit and at best it was the whetstone on which wit sharpened itself – that one laughs at humour but savours wit.
~ Catherine Cookson
Amore e odio sono due lati di una stessa lama. A dividerli è un filo più tagliente di quelli del pugnale del tuo cassiliano.
~ Jacqueline Carey
My mum and dad are both really funny. My granddad's really funny. My uncle's really funny. Everyone's really funny. You have to be quick; otherwise, you get roasted. Everyone takes the piss quite a lot. You have to be really sharp.
~ Noel Fielding