These knife quotes will inspire you. A knife is an instrument composed of a blade fixed into a handle, used for cutting, or as a weapon.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging knife quotes, knife sayings, and knife proverbs.
Famous Knife Quotes
- “Remember, it is never the knife’s fault.” ~ Daniel Boulud
- “There never was a good knife made of bad steel.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.” ~ Patrick Ness
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“Knives are like credit cards; don’t leave home without ’em and always carry several” ~ Richard Marcinko
- “The tongue like a sharp knife … Kills without drawing blood.” ~ Gautama Buddha
- “I’ve had so many knives stuck into me when they hand me a flower I can’t quite make out what it is. It takes time.” ~ Charles Bukowski
- “A well-trained person needs only a knife to survive.” ~ Mors Kochanski
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“A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.” ~ Katharine Hepburn
- “This is my knife. It is very sharp and very eager to hurt you.” ~ Daniel Handler
- “The knife is the most permanent, the most immortal, the most ingenious of man’s creations. The knife was a guillotine; the knife is a universal means of resolving all knots.” ~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
- “A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice.” ~ Zoroaster
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“The knife is the balance point for survival in the bush. Without it, you have to stay on the move. With it, you create the opportunity to rest.” ~ Mors Kochanski
- “Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.” ~ Barbara Kingsolver
- “If I get 8 hours to cut a tree I’ll spend 7 hours to sharp my knife.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
- “The knife in the hand of a murderer kills, but if you give it to a doctor he will heal with it.” ~ Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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“Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.” ~ Virginia Woolf
- “Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.” ~ James Russell Lowell
- “If I ever bore you, it’ll be with a knife.” ~ Louise Brooks
- “If you want good roses, sharpen your knife and harden your heart.” ~ Patience Strong , Sharpening knife quotes
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“The secret of a successful restaurant is sharp knives.” ~ George Orwell
- “Your appearance can be a weapon. As powerful as any knife or gun.” ~ Barbara
- “Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force.” ~ Stephen King
- “But magic is neither good nor evil. It is a tool, like a knife. Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil.” ~ Rick Riordan
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“The knives of jealousy are honed on details.” ~ Ruth Rendell
- “I’ve always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.” ~ Billy Connolly
- “The knife is the most durable, immortal, the most genius thing that man created. The knife was the guillotine; the knife is the universal means of solving all knots; and along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox – the single most worthy path of the fearless mind.” ~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
- “The big rules of knife fighting are (a) do not try it at home, and (b) the whole point is never, ever use the blade. It is there to distract your opponent. While he stares at the gleaming steel, you kick his balls to kingdom come–he’s all yours. Just a tip!” ~ Keith Richards
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“If two people are in love they can sleep on the blade of a knife.” ~ Edward Hoagland
- “There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.” ~ Neil Gaiman
- “I probably use my chef’s knives more than any other tool in the kitchen. I’m not married to a particular brand, because they all work, they all have sharp blades.” ~ Bobby Flay
- “You’re like a dull knife, just ain’t cuttin’, just talkin’ loud and saying nothing” ~ James Brown
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“I like the Japanese knives, I like French knives. Whatever’s sharp.” ~ Wolfgang Puck
- “They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.” ~ Jonathan Swift
- “Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?” ~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
- “As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatment, so shouldst thou have thy thoughts ready to understand things divine and human, remembering in thy every act, even the smallest, how close is the bond that unites the two.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
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“The real knife to a man’s heart was his woman’s tears.” ~ Christine Feehan
- “I don’t want my girl to be so skinny she can knife me with her knee.” ~ Mark Twain
- “A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore
- “Who hasn’t sharpened the edge of his soul? When just as our eyes are opened, we see hate, and just after learning to walk, we are tripped, and just for wanting to love, we are hated, and for no more than touching, we are hurt, which of us hasn’t started to arm himself, to make himself sharp, somehow, like a knife, to pay back the hurt?” ~ Pablo Neruda
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“At the root of many, a woman’s failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.” ~ Robert Farrar Capon
- “I love all things, not because they are passionate or sweet-smelling but because, I don’t know, because this ocean is yours, and mine: these buttons and wheels and little forgotten treasures, fans upon whose feathers love has scattered its blossoms, glasses, knives, and scissors — all bear the trace of someone’s fingers on their handle or surface, the trace of a distant hand lost in the depths of forgetfulness.” ~ Pablo Neruda , Love knife quotes
- “I suggest we bring some normality back to this country and say if you are carrying a knife, there must be zero tolerance. If it was up to me, everyone caught with a knife would get an automatic ten-year sentence.” ~ Simon Cowell
- “If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“A knife is neither true nor false, but anyone impaled on its blade is in error.” ~ Rene Daumal
- “My body is a journal in a way. It’s like what sailors used to do, where every tattoo meant something, a specific time in your life when you make a mark on yourself, whether you do it yourself with a knife or with a professional tattoo artist.” ~ Johnny Depp
- “I’m a ninja! I like swords and knives and stuff like that.” ~ Isaiah Mustafa
- “I’ll have your heart if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I’ll have your heart, your life.” ~ Stevie Smith
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“Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.” ~ E. B. White
- “I know that elections must be limited only to those who understand that the Arabs are the deadly enemy of the Jewish state, who would bring on us a slow Auschwitz – not with gas, but with knives and hatchets.” ~ Meir Kahane
- “When one consorts with assassins, one must expect to dance along the edge of a knife once or twice.” ~ R.L. LaFevers
- “If I can wheedle
A knife or a needle,
Why not a Silver Churn?” ~ W. S. Gilbert -
“I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.” ~ James Russell Lowell
- “Prison is like high school with knives.” ~ Raegan Butcher
- “One of the best things that ever happened to me was Rocky Horror being a total flop in New York as a play. I mean, it was a disaster, and it was the night of the long knives as far as the critics were concerned.” ~ Tim Curry
- “I have seen purer liquors, better segars, finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier women courtesans here in San Francisco than in any other place I have ever visited.” ~ Hinton Rowan Helper
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“God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- “I have a lot of cooking tools. In fact I have a whole drawer full of knives. Cooking tools, especially cutlery, are my toys.” ~ Martin Yan
- “The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don’t know anything. You don’t know the knives behind the smiles.” ~ Steve Guttenberg
- “At least 50 times. I’ve jumped off a building, jumped off a cliff in a car. I’ve been in bedrooms when women came in with knives and guns.” ~ Dennis Rodman
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“All the unhurried day / Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives.” ~ Philip Larkin
- “Go mad, and beat their wives; Plunge (after shocking lives) Razors and carving knives Into their gizzards.” ~ Charles Stuart Calverley
- “Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen
may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols or bombs without incurring any penalties.” ~ George Bernard Shaw -
“Diamonds are a girl’s best friend- they’re sharper than knives” ~ Lynne Ewing
- “I have a knife collection. I have my favorite black knife with me all the time. It’s a switchblade. It relaxes me to flick it. I close it and open it.” ~ Taylor Momsen
- “As you all know first prize is a Cadillac El Dorado. Anyone wanna see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you’re fired.” ~ David Mamet
Knife is an instrument for cutting, consisting essentially of a thin, sharp-edged, metal blade fitted with a handle.
