Barbs Quotes

• There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Witty, Littles, Tongue

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1825). “The Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan: Complete in One Volume”, p.163

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• Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic - if it is pulled out I shall die.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Heart, Long, Childhood

  Soren Kierkegaard's journal entry, 1847.

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• The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Love, Anger, Flames

  Walter Savage Landor (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)”, p.66, Delphi Classics

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• There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Literature, Infinity, Infinite

  Charles Baudelaire (1951). “My heart laid bare, and other prose writings”

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• I've been working on Barb for a while. I looked at her as a sort of every woman. She's incredibly strong; she's incredibly generous. She's seemingly insane because she is in the situation of a polygamous relationship, but she had definite reasons to do it.

  Jeanne Tripplehorn

  Relationship, Strong, Insane

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• Most folks are like a barb-wire fence. They have their good points.

  Texas Bix Bender

  Wire, Fence, Folks

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• He who would lay hands upon us will encounter thorns and barbs!

  Adolf Hitler

  Hands, Thorns, Encounters

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• Greed, fear, lust, hate, jealousy, these are part of reality too ... bundles of consciousness wrapped tightly, barbs on which you can injure yourself, volatile energies that serve as separations between yourself and perfect stillness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hate, Buddhism, Reality

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• No matter the barbs of fate that frustrate you, no matter how stacked against you the cards of fortune. . . . There is a liberating law in the universe, and you can become the highest of the high, wisest of the wise.

  Uell Stanley Andersen

  Wise, Fate, Law

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• Each scar's a cipher rimmed with old barbs and landmines, protecting its truth.

  J. L. B. Smith

  Ciphers, Scar, Self Mutilation

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• There was a whole group that really welcomed me: George Mitchell was one, Ted Kennedy, Chris Dodd, the reformers were really delighted to see me. So if you were one of those squeaky clean, shiny bright, let's reform the world, you were very glad to see Barb Mikulski, and George Mitchell was in that category.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Groups, Reform, World

  Interview with Brien Williams, digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu. May 4, 2010.

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• When did "sentimental" become a pejorative barb? I do not at all share the notion that a piece of music, or a poem, or a film that bypasses the brain and aims straight for the heart . . . should automatically be heaped with scorn. I think it is symptomatic of a sad and dangerous impoverishment of spirit.

  Bill Richardson

  Heart, Thinking, Brain

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• The writer should always serve as his own angleworm —and the sharper the barb with which he fishes himself out of blackness, the better.

  John Hawkes

  Should, Fishes, Blackness

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• Christians must deplore unfair and deprecating barbs regularly aimed our way.

  David R. Mains

  Christian, Religious, Way

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• If you got to castrate your miser'ble self with a piece o' rusty barb wire, do it.

  Fred Phelps

  Self, Scary, Wire

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• We do all like to get things inside a barb-wire corral. Especially our fellow-men. We love to round them up inside the barb-wire enclosure of FREEDOM, and make 'em work. Work, you free jewel, WORK! shouts the liberator, cracking his whip.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Jewels, Wire

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.29, Cambridge University Press

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• There are some of us who in after years say to Fate, 'Now deal us your hardest blow, give us what you will; but let us never again suffer as we suffered when we were children.' The barb in the arrow of childhood's suffering is this: its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.

  Olive Schreiner

  Children, Loneliness, Ignorance

  Olive Schreiner (2013). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Ideas, Meditation, Mind

  Desiderius Erasmus, William Watson Barker (2001). “The Adages of Erasmus”, p.16, University of Toronto Press

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• With a click of the Post Comment button, Netizens can quickly bring down the level of dialogue. Bloggers lob zingers, commenters trade barbs, and bullies target kids in the cyber schoolyard. Mudslinging - a time-honored political tradition - thrives on the Web.

  Willow Bay

  Kids, Bully, Political

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• No touching Baby Jesus.” “But we’re his parents!” proclaimed Mary Beth, who was being generous to include poor Joseph under this appellation. “Mary Beth,” Barb Wiggin said, “if you touch the Baby Jesus, I’m putting you in a cow costume.

  John Irving

  Baby, Jesus, Parent

  John Irving (1989). “A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel”, William Morrow & Co

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• How many times already had I encountered the painful lesson that although we may wish for the barb to be pulled from our flesh, it leaves a welt that doesn't heal?

  Arthur Golden

  Wish, Lessons, May

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