A Quote by Douglas William Jerrold

Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.

Douglas William Jerrold

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Acquaintances Apt Best Draw Drunken Like Men Steel Swords Wits

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Douglas William Jerrold
English - Dramatist
January 3, 1803 - June 8, 1857

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

More men have been defeated by reports than all the steel of all the swords in history.

Raymond E. Feist

You little fool. Tears are not a woman's only weapon. You've got another one between your legs, and you'd best learn to use it. You'll find men use their swords freely enough. Both kinds of swords.

George R. R. Martin

Will nodded toward Hadrian. “Look at the swords he’s carrying. A man wearing one—maybe he knows how to use it, maybe not. A man carries two—he probably don’t know nothing about swords, but he wants you to think he does. But a man carrying three swords—that’s a lot of weight. No one’s gonna haul that much steel around unless he makes a living using them.

Michael J. Sullivan

Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness.

Robert E. Howard

You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant; But yet you draw not iron, for my heart Is true as steel: leave you your power to draw, And I shall have no power to follow you.

William Shakespeare

It's a peculiarity of the Norwegian culture and of the English and American, too, that men are not supposed to cry. Stiff upper lip and all that. But the Vikings cried like women in public or privately. They soaked their beards with tears and were not one bit ashamed about it. Yet, they were as quick to draw their swords as they were to shed tears. So, what's all this crap about men having to hold in their sorrow and grief and disappointment?

Philip Jose Farmer

States of profound happiness, like all other forms of intoxication, are apt to befuddle the wits; intense enjoyment of the present always makes one forget the past.

Stefan Zweig

Drunken men give some of the best pep talks.

Criss Jami

Wine ...moderately drunken it doth quicken a man's wits, It doth comfort the heart.

Andrew Boorde

Young men are as apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are to think themselves sober enough. They look upon spirit to be a much better thing than experience; which they call coldness. They are but half mistaken; for though spirit without experience is dangerous, experience without spirit is languid and ineffective.

Lord Chesterfield

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.

Jonathan Swift

One thing I have throughout my career, it felt like I did my best to align myself with quality artists, quality work, and it is a situation of steel sharpening steel.

Common

I don't like broad swords. They're not much fun. A broad sword is just a big chunk of steel, and there's not much finesse in it, not much skill, I don't think anyway.

Sean Bean

All that Syrio Forel had taught her went racing through her head. Swift as a deer. Quiet as shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Strong as a bear. Fierce as a wolverine. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Then man who fears losing has already lost. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Fear cuts deeper than swords.

George R. R. Martin

My poems please the brave: My poems, short and sincere, Have the force of steel Which forges swords.