Top 284 Menace Quotes & Sayings

What is she to me? Except a menace — a danger you’ve chosen to inflict on all of us.

The poet, like the lover, is a menace on the assembly line.

The industry is a menace to artists.

But after all, what have we to do with taverns? Real menace belongs to the drawing-room.

Too darned good a machine can be a menace, not a help.

America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich, cumbersome, aristocratic, ideological pasts can reach for what once seemed unattainable. Here they have tried to make dreams come true. Yet now... we are threatened by a new and particularly American menace. It is not the menace of class war, of ideology, of poverty, of disease, of illiteracy, or demagoguery, or of tyranny, though these now plague most of the world. It is the menace of unreality.

My two biggest influences are Archie comics and Dennis the Menace.

Patriotism is a menace to liberty.

Lead poisoning is an insidious menace that robs our citizens of their fullest potential.

No doubt concentration camps were a means, a menace used to keep order.

Every Superstate has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and the truth is a menace.

The only menace is inertia.

Television is the menace that everyone loves to hate but can't seem to live without.

The city has become a serious menace to our civilization... It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.

Most people still fail to comprehend the magnitude and menace of the 'Population Monster.'

It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.

We condemn all shades and hues of terrorism and militancy and want to cooperate with India to fight this menace.

Have I done the world good, or have I added a menace?

Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, Ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues.

The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots.

Ignorance is a menace to peace.

The two of you together are a menace,” Penelope remarked. “My aim in life,” Lady Danbury announced, “is to be a menace to as great a number of people as possible, so I shall take that as the highest of compliments, Mrs. Bridgerton.” “Why is it,” Penelope wondered, “that you only call me Mrs. Bridgerton when you are opining in a grand fashion?” “Sounds better that way,” Lady D said, punctuating her remark with a loud thump of her cane.

Chatterers are a menace.

Confronted by menace, or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it, define it.

I think a little menace is fine to have in a story. For one thing, it's good for the circulation.

The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.

Big cities do evoke a sense of menace.

Not much to be perfectly honest! I thought The Phantom Menace was terrible, except for the Pod Race.

Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a menace to the race.

You're a public menace. You shouldn't be allowed out on your own.

We imbue deserts and the tundra with menace because nothing, or little, grows there.

It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to . . . American democracy.

November at its best - with a sort of delightful menace in the air.

The best examples of lies can be found there. To me, social media is the worst menace to society.

Cause see they call me a menace; and if the shoe fits I'll wear it.

You, Ms. Lane, are a menace to others! A walking, talking catastrophe in pink!

Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato.

The greatest menace to the world today is the growing, exploiting, irresponsible imperialism.

A wounded Qaddafi still in power would be an ongoing threat and menace to the rest of the world.

Nobody gets out of love alive. You turn into a menace or a pest when you've been rejected.

The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.

Britain and Pakistan will jointly fight the menace of terrorism .. Both the countries are facing a common threat of terrorism and we know that Pakistan is even more committed to fighting this menace

...there is therefore now no condemnation for two reasons: you are dead now; and God, as the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, has been dead all along. The blame game was over before it started. It really was. All Jesus did was announce that truth and tell you it would make you free. It was admittedly a dangerous thing to do. You are a menace. Be he did it; and therefore, menace or not, here you stand: uncondemned, forever, now. What are you going to do with your freedom?

One of our most important tasks will be to save future generations from a similar political fate and to maintain for ever watchful in them a knowledge of the menace of Jewry. For this reason alone it is vital that the Passion play be continued at Oberammergau; for never has the menace of Jewry been so convincingly portrayed as in this presentation of what happened in the times of the Romans. There one sees in Pontius Pilate a Roman racially and intellectually so superior, that he stands like a firm, clean rock in the middle of the whole muck and mire of Jewry.

Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.

When you're a large black man in Hollywood, the obvious stereotype is one of force and menace.

I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on.

Drugs are a big menace to our society.

True horror, I think, deals with dread and menace and gets under your skin.

I refer to the debt - the new red menace. This time consisting of ink.

The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.

Terrorism is a persistent and evolving global menace. No country is immune.

I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.

The eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing, the mind is a menace to wisdom, every organ of the senses is a menace to its own capacity.

I'm very scary. I'm a menace.

Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?

The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.

The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.