Dagger
A dagger is a fighting knife with a sharp point designed or capable of being used as a thrusting or stabbing weapon. The design dates to human prehistory, and daggers have been used throughout human experience to the modern day in close combat confrontations. Many ancient cultures used adorned daggers in ritual and ceremonial purposes, a trend which continues to the present time in the form of art knives. The distinctive shape and historic usage of the dagger have made it iconic and symbolic.
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Famous quotes containing the word dagger:
“Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight? Or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.”
—E.M. Cioran (b. 1911)
“The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)