Power Knife

Famous quotes containing the words power and/or knife:

“What wouldst thou do, old man?
Think’st thou that duty shall have dread to speak
When power to flattery bows?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“When she, and though some said she played
I said that she had danced heart’s truth,
Drew a knife to strike him dead,
I could but leave him to his fate;
For, no matter what is said,
They had all that had their hate....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)