Knives Quotes

“Children are knives, my mother once said. They don’t mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don’t we, we clasp them until the blood flows.”
― Joanne Harris, The Girl with No Shadow

“Ken Karver here! Karver's the name, knives are the game. There's nothing that can't be sliced, diced, chopped, or otherwise taken care of with a good set of cutlery ... minus the spoons, forks, and such.”
― Jasun Ether, The Beasts of Success

“Anyone who tells you size doesn't matter has been seeing too many small knives.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Narcissus in Chains

“Wraith snorted. "Cowards. Seriously. Who brings a gun to a knife fight? That's cheating."

"You don't have a gun?" Kynan asked.

Wraith made a face of digust. "It's not very sporting to shoot people."

"So you're saying that you didn't shoot the people who shot you?"

"Hell, yeah, I shot them.”
― Larissa Ione, Desire Unchained

“A woman who goes around wearing a knife is obviously looking for trouble." She reached deep into her pocket and brought out a long, slender piece of metal, glittering all along one edge. "However a woman who carries a knife is ready for trouble. Generally speaking, it's easier to appear harmless. It's less trouble all around.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place.”
― John Buchan, The 39 Steps

“I never leave the house with just one knife. Seriously. Do I look like a one-knife kind of girl?”
― Ally Carter, Not If I Save You First

“-I cannot tell you how many principles of knife safety you are violating right now.
-Where's your sense of adventure?
-When it comes to stab wounds? On indefinite sabbatical.”
― Margaret Owen, Little Thieves

“I have seen purer liquors, better segars, finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier courtesans here in San Francisco than in any other place I have ever visited; and it is my unbiased opinion that California can and does furnish the best bad things that are available in America.”
― Hinton Helper

“[S]he was in a pretty crazy place, screaming and waving the bucket-knife around, spattered with blood from head to toe. Lee was lying on the floor, quietly pumping out his life through his throat.”
― Max Barry, Lexicon

“When one contemplated Portia, when one contemplated Sharon, when one contemplated one's own apparently pointless, utterly trivial being, the questions hung all around one, as urgent as knives at the throat. But the instant one tried to grasp one of them and turn it to one's own purpose and pierce through the murk, it became blunt and useless as a piece of cardboard.”
― Deborah Eisenberg

“I know where you sleep, Bard."
She smirked.
"Then you know I sleep with knives.”
― Lila Bard, V.E. Schwab

“That knife! It looks similar to a machete-like weapon used in India- the Kukri!
He's using it to chop leeks, ginger and some herbs...
Which he's tossing into a pot of rich chicken stock!"
"Ah! Now he's grinding his spices!"
Cross!
"What?! He's crossing different implements in every step of his recipe?! Can he even do that?!"
"I recognize that mortar and pestle. It's the kind they use in India to grind spices."
"Oh gosh... I can already smell the fragrance from here!"
He clearly knows just how much to grind each spice...
... and to toast each in a little oil to really bring out its fragrance!
"Ah, I see! What he has steaming on that other burner is shark fin!"
"From Indian cuisine, we dive straight into something very Chinese!
Cross! Saiba x Mò Liú Zhâo!"
"What the heck? He's stroking the fin...
... quickly running the claws along its grain!"
Ah! I see what he's doing! Shark fin by itself is flavorless. Even in true Chinese cuisine...
...it's simmered in Paitan stock or oyster sauce first to give it a stronger, more concentrated umami punch.
But by using those claws, he can't skip that step...
... and directly infuse the fin with umami flavor compounds!
"Saiba...
Cross..."
"Aaaah! That implement! I recognize that one!
Eishi Tsukasa!"
Tsukasa Senpai's Super-Sized Grater-Sword!
"He took a huge lump of butter...
... and is grating it down into shavings at unbelievable speed!"”
― Yuto Tsukuda, 食戟のソーマ 35 [Shokugeki no Souma 35]

“You can never have too many knives."
"No? What if you fall in a river and can't swim for all that iron?”
― Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged

“Bet you wish you could throw that blade, don't you?' he taunts, knowing I won't break a rule when it can hurt someone in the matches going on around us.

'Bet you wish you didn't know what it feels like to dig out one of my knives, don't you?' I retort.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“I saw a teen couple with a baby on the way at a flea market. Picking out their Engagement Knives. With a table of fantasy daggers. They were having a hard time. Fire Dragon? Ice Tiger? "We have to get this right!" And maybe they did.”
― Damon Thomas, Some Books Are Not For Sale

“Her eyes fell upon her knives, which she had neatly laid on the counter for inventory. There was her boning knife, with a smooth molded handle which fit her hand perfectly; her bread knife, with its fluted edge; her butcher's knife, blade shaped like a scimitar; her versatile Chinese cleaver, which could mince, slice, bone, flatten, chop, even crack through chicken bones and meat joints. Her chef's knife's gently curved triangular blade. Her Japanese knife arched like a samurai sword, her oyster knife with its short pointed blade, and her slicer to cut cold meats into even, thin slices. And last, her filleting knife for boning and skinning fresh fish without damaging the flesh.”
― Nina Killham, How to Cook a Tart

“The knives are useful. People are so busy staring at them, they don't notice the gun until I've already shot them.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Control

“Her words were like knives to his conscience, and as much as avarice dulled their blades, her tongue sharpened them.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Hopebreaker

“You're an expert on knives?" Merritt asked.
Garrett sent her a brief grin. "Not an expert, but I am keen on them. My husband, on the other hand, is a connoisseur and has an extensive collection.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Devil in Disguise

“Lucien's red hair shone in the firelight, the colours flickering with every movement he made, and the jewels in the hilt of his sword glinted- the ornate blade so unlike the baldric of knives still strapped across Tamlin's chest. But there was no one here to use a sword against. And while the sword was embedded with jewels and filigree, it was large enough to be more than decoration.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“Knívleysur maður er lívleysur maður.”
― Färinger

“Cade wondered if she'd still think he was sweet if she knew that under his pant legs, strapped to each ankle, were twin silver boot knives meant for killing vampires.”
― Alistair Cross, The Midnight Ripper

“I mentioned the other day that any reports about what I was going to do when I finished being President were made entirely without consultation with me. I forgot to mention one report that is going around. I mention it now because I don’t want to be accused of acquiring property under false pretenses. I am having sent to me quite a number of jackknives. I don’t recall that I ever made any suggestion that after I finished my term of office I was going to engage in the occupation of whittling. I did some when I was a boy. I haven’t applied myself to that for a good many years. I hesitate to spoil anything like a good newspaper story, but, as I say, I don’t want to keep getting jackknives under false pretenses.”
― Calvin Coolidge

“I unrolled my knife bag and saw all my old friends staring back at me. Some girls liked diamonds, some liked pearls, but just give me a good knife. Knives are sexy, that's all there is to it.”
― Victoria Benton Frank, My Magnolia Summer

“Show her the Miyabi collection," Alexander says.
Eden gawks at the knives Rochester dutifully sets out for her. There's one of everything. A chef's knife, a prep, a utility, a nakiri, a santoku, one for paring, one for boning, and one for bread. There's also a sharpening steel to round it all off. They're all very beautiful, made with a flowering Damascus finish and gorgeous black ash wood handles.”
― Katrina Kwan, Knives, Seasoning, & A Dash of Love

“Words are like water: once they have escaped one’s mouth, they’re spilled onto the floor. Words are like knives, leaving invisible wounds that continue to bleed.”
― Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing

“His knowledge of nice was more or less limited to which end you use to cut your cigar”
― Mike Carey, Vicious Circle

“His knowledge of knives was more or less limited to which end you use to cut your cigar”
― Mike Carey, Vicious Circle

“running with sharp knives
never got me so far
but running with you
seemed lovely”
― Dominic Riccitello