Revenge is sharp-sighted. [ Proverb ]

Bravery is often too sharp a spur. [ Kossuth ]

Sharp stomachs make short devotion. [ Proverb ]

Famine hath a sharp and meagre face. [ John Dryden ]

Malice hath a sharp sight and a strong memory. [ Proverb ]

An acute word cuts deeper than a sharp weapon. [ Proverb ]

Sweet is the rose, but grows upon a brere;
Sweet is the juniper, but sharp his bough;
Sweet is the eglantine, but sticketh nere;
Sweet is the firbloome, but its branches rough;
Sweet is the cypress, but its rynd is tough;
Sweet is the nut, but bitter is his pill;
Sweet is the broome-flowre, but yet sowre enough;
And sweet is moly, but his root is ill.
[ Spenser ]

There are no eyes so sharp as the eyes of hatred. [ George S. Hillard ]

Ten thousand furies lash my soul with whips.
At every look sharp stings transfix my heart.
And my chill blood thrills cold through every vein. [ Darcy ]

The envious man's face grows sharp and his eyes big. [ Proverb ]

He's as sharp as if he lived upon Tewksbury mustard. [ Proverb ]

She hath tied sharp-toothed unkindness, like a vulture here. [ William Shakespeare ]

Thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most sharp sauce. [ William Shakespeare ]

A blunt edge will do it, where sometimes a sharp ax will not. [ Proverb ]

Sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. [ Diderot ]

Sorrow for a husband is like a pain in the elbow, sharp and short. [ Proverb ]

Sharp wits, like sharp knives, do often cut their owner's fingers. [ Arrowsmith ]

A sharp tongue is the only edge-tool that grows keener with constant use. [ Washington Irving ]

Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice and dull in every other. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it. [ Tacitus ]

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit; but God to man doth speak in solitude. [ John Stuart Blackie ]

Since your eyes are so sharp, that you cannot only look through a millstone, but clean through the mind. [ Lyly ]

Necessity is a strong rider with sharp spurs, who maketh the sorry jade do that which the strongest horse sometimes will not do. [ Calanus ]

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction, and set with the sharp mordant of experience. [ Lowell ]

Invective may be a sharp weapon, but overuse blunts its edge. Even when the denunciation is just and true it is an error of art to indulge it too long. [ Tyndall ]

Beauty in a modest woman is like fire at a distance, or like a sharp sword; neither doth the one burn, nor the other wound those that come not too near them. [ Cervantes ]

We cannot speak a loyal word and be meanly silent; we cannot kill and not kill at the same moment; but a moment is room enough for the loyal and mean desire, for the outflash of a murderous thought, and the sharp backward stroke of repentance. [ George Eliot ]

The style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine and sharp polish, a delicate and perfect taste; while that fitted for the people is characterized by a vigorous natural fulness, a profound depth of feeling, and an engaging naivete. [ Goethe ]

The style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine and sharp polish, a delicate and perfect taste; while that fitted for the people is characterised by a vigorous natural fulness, a profound depth of feeling, and an engaging naïveté. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]