Elizabeth I
Queen
"The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower."
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Recoil
9 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Writer, Physician
"Violence recoils on the violent."
Jack London
Novelist, Journalist
"One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself."
Bill Keller
Journalist
"The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements."
Seneca the Younger
Philosopher, Statesman
"Crime oft recoils upon the author's head."
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"Let's do what you fear most That from which you recoil But which still makes your eyes moist"
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