Pricks Quotes

“A rose, isn't quite as beautiful as it once was, when after its thorn pricks you.”

“A rose, isn't quite as beautiful as it once was, when after its thorn pricks you.”

“Honour pricks me on. Yea but how if honour prick me off when I come on? How then? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then? No. What is honour? A word.”

“Perhaps man was neither good nor bad, was only a machine in an insensate universe--his courage no more than a reflex to danger, like the automatic jump at the pin-prick. Perhaps there were no virtues, unless jumping at pin-pricks was a virtue, and humanity only a mechanical donkey led on by the iron carrot of love, through the pointless treadmill of reproduction.”

“Men are like roses. You have to watch out for the pricks.”

“Every rose has it's thorn, but that doesn't mean you have to put up with a ton of pricks.”

“If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.”

“For the maintenance of peace nations should avoid the pin-pricks which forerun cannon-shots.”

“If they want peace nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.”

“Women, fire in their crotch, won't burn out, begin by fighting off pricks, end by going wild hunting for one that still works.”

“Divorced?''Separated.'He tested his thumb against the pricks of the rose. 'Women. They say you got all the freedom. Then you give them their freedom, and they don't want it.' ("Novelty")”