Slays Quotes

War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands. - Beilby Porteus

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays. - Oprah Winfrey

There's no weapon that slays Its victim so surely (if well aimed) as praise. - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race. - Charles Bradlaugh

Slander slays three persons: the speaker, the spoken to, and the spoken of. - Hebrew Proverb

Sin goes in a disguise, and thence is welcome; like Judas, it kisses and kills; like Joab, it salutes and slays. - George Swinnock

Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it. - Georges Bernanos

Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. - Henry Ward Beecher

No spell were wanting, from the dead to raise me, But only that sweet laugh herewith she slays me. - Clement Marot

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive. - Havelock Ellis