Quotes About Sharpness

She thought how sharp words could sting when they held the truth.

Quick-wittedness can be very lonely.

the greatest weapon against big stupid men was a sharp mind.

Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.

Logic is a kitchen grater.

The world sharpened suddenly, as brilliant and bright as when she got rain in her eye.

You're like a sharp bright piece broken from a star. Too sharp, too bright, sometimes for your own good.

Which side of the blade is sharper? The lie or the truth? It all seems irrelevant when your jugular is sliced open and you're lying in a pool of blood for the whole world to see.

It's easier to teach a hungry person how to be sharp than it is to teach a sharp person how to be hungry.

So many pebbles on that beach—millions—all of them worn smooth by the sea's relentless grinding, but not this one. This one had stayed sharp.

Things are more easily seen from edges. Danger rouses the sleeping mind. It makes some things clear.

Stupidity is not my strong point.

There never seemed to be any spontaneity with Pauline. If she saw you, she meant to. If she spoke to you, she'd already planned what to say so it came out sharply and perfectly.

Some things are sharper than they have been for years." "That's good. That means death is approaching.

The knives I keep in my apartment are just sharp enough to open envelopes with. Cutting a slice of coarse bread is on the borderline of their capacity. I don't need anything sharper. Otherwise, on bad days, it might easily occur to me that I could always go and split my throat. Against such a contingency it's nice to have the added security of needing to go downstairs and borrow a decent knife from a neighbour.