Stephen King
Author
"Love isn't soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close."
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Bites
95 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Lesley Gore
Singer-songwriter
"You can only bite off so much, so you gotta know what you want to do."
Edmund Burke
Philosopher, Politician
"We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us."
James Joyce
Novelist, Poet
"People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep."
Anne Sexton
Poet, Author
"Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone."
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"If you introduce yourself to anyone as Mrs. Dracula, I'll bite you in a manner you won't enjoy."
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"Just write about what bites you and damn the rest."
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"A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse."
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"Take big bites. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing."
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"How would you like to bite that in the ass, develop lock jaw and be dragged to death?"
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"The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby."
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"Cut off a wolf's head and it still has the power to bite."
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"You can fill my appetite without me taking up a bite."
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"What is death? A scary mask. Take it off-see, it doesn't bite."
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"I am what I eat. And I am this especially when I bite my nails."
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"Henry James chews more than he bites off."
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"Love is ... the bite into bread again."
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"I don't bite you know ... unless it's called for."
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"Once in a while you have to bite the hand that reads you."
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"Though the Mastiffe be gentile, yet bite him not by the lippe."
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"In every country dogges bite."
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"The bite of conscience is indecent."
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"I still bite my nails."
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