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Quotes About Dagger

What are you doing here? (Stryker) (She answered his question with a stroke of her dagger that narrowly missed his throat.) I thought we'd catch up on old times. Maybe play Parcheesi. (Stryker)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I may not be able to stop you from killing me to get your pound of flesh, Tristan, but touch me – " She let her gaze drop to the bulge in his pants and spun the dagger in her hands. "And I'll get my own pound of flesh with one swipe." – Evalle
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
The wagoner's eyes were wide open. The shock of what had just happened was frozen on his face. His own dagger was buried deep in his chest. 'He fell on his knife. He's dead.' the steward said. He looked up at the Ranger, but saw neither quilt nor regret in his dark eyes. 'What a shame,' said Will Treaty. Then, gathering his cloak around him, he turned and strode from the tent.
~ John Flanagan
it buried between the fastenings of a Frenchman's corselet. Which is actually not a bad end for a fine dagger like that one.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
'Homeland' is a thriller with a lot of cloak and dagger spy stuff, which is one of the things that makes it so much fun.
~ Adam Rayner
Tas stared mournfully at the body of the goblin he killed. It had fallen facedown, his dagger buried underneath. "I'll get it for you," Tanis offered, preparing to roll the body over. "No." Tas made a face. "I don't want it back. You can never get rid of the smell, you know.
~ Margaret Weis
For the address, Nakamura had ordered his tailors to make him a new shogun's outfit, complete with ornamented sword and dagger. He was appearing in Japanese martial dress, he told his aides, to stress his role as the "lead warrior and protector" of the colonists.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
His dagger was out, poised at her throat. "Sing, little bird. Sing for your little life.
~ George R. R. Martin
A litter was quickly formed, and Aubrey was laid by the side of her who had lately been to him the object of so many bright and fairy visions, now fallen with the flower of life that had died within her. He knew not what his thoughts were--his mind was benumbed and seemed to shun reflection, and take refuge in vacancy--he held almost unconsciously in his hand a naked dagger of a particular construction, which had been found in the hut.
~ John William Polidori
What a mouse he is made by conversation,' Ã¢â'¬Â Ezri recited. " Ã¢â'¬ËœScorns gods, dares battle, and flinches from a maid's rebuke! Merest laugh from merest girl is like a dagger felt, and like a dagger, makes a lodging of his breast. Turns blood to milkwater and courage to faint memory.' 
~ Scott Lynch
Captain Orrin Ravelle," said Locke, drawing a dagger and placing it against the captain's throat. "Of the good ship Tal Verrar is Fucked ! You stop in and let them know I'm in the neighbourhood!
~ Scott Lynch
Time is but a phantom dagger That motion lifts to slay itself.
~ Maxwell Bodenheim
In 2007 the 'dagger' of an idea that killed President Bush's effort at reforming the immigration system was lax border security.
~ Juan Williams
A field of scarlet with nine hanged men in black and six yellow daggers in the upper left and lower right quadrants, respectively, while the upper right quandrant featured a shattered skull and the lower left boasted a bird astride a severed head. It might have been a raven. Or an eagle.
~ Glen Cook
This is one hell of a suicide note. THE SUICIDE SOLILOQUY- Yes! I've resolved the deed to do, And this the place to do it; The heart I'll rush a dagger through Though I in hell should rue it! Sweet steel! Come forth from out your sheath, And glist'ning, speak your powers; Rip up the organs of my breath, And draw my blood in showers! I strike! It quivers in that heart Which drives me to this end; I draw and kiss the bloody dart, My last-my only friend!
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
As Mr. Darcy walked off, Elizabeth felt her blood turn cold. She had never in her life been so insulted. The warrior code demanded she avenge her honour. Elizabeth reached down to her ankle, taking care not to draw attention. There, her hand met the dagger concealed beneath her dress. She meant to follow this proud Mr. Darcy outside and open his throat. But
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
I envision a style: a style that would be beautiful, that someone will invent some day, ten years or ten centuries from now, one that would be rhythmic as verse, precise as the language of the sciences, undulant, deep-voiced as a cello, tipped with flame: a style that would pierce your idea like a dagger, and on which your thought would sail easily ahead over a smooth surface, like a skiff before a good tail wind.
~ Gustave Flaubert
I want you to be happy. Promise me you'll give him a chance." "I can only promise not to stick my dagger in his gut while he sleeps," Rionna grumbled.
~ Maya Banks
When I was young, I was trained in stage fighting and rapier and dagger for several years.
~ Suzanne Collins
Wouldn't it be better to avoid the thrust of the dagger which, I knew, with the atavistic insight of a Jewish child, would in a few minutes be plunged into my heart?
~ Fred Uhlman
reading was hardly as practical a skill as being able to handle a dagger or use Allomancy?
~ Brandon Sanderson
Arthur placed the point over the heart, and as I looked I could see its dint in the white flesh. Then he struck with all his might.
~ Bram Stoker
Bring forth the deadly dagger of death!' Gauchee and Kastern came forward, bearing between them a red silk cushion. On it lay a long dagger which glittered wickedly in the firelight. Rowanoak chanted in the background
~ Brian Jacques
It had, however, been declared by his own physician to be a case of natural causes. Bentzen had gone to see the man and explained that falling down a flight of steps with a dagger in your back was a disease caused by an unwise opening of the mouth.
~ Terry Pratchett