My man's as true as steel. [ William Shakespeare ]
Stronger than steel
Is the sword of the spirit;
Swifter than arrows
The life of the truth is;
Greater than anger
Is love, and subdueth. [ Longfellow ]
As true steel as Rippon spurs. [ Proverb ]
There are words which cut like steel. [ Balzac ]
And the stern joy which warriors feel
In foemen worthy of their steel. [ Scott ]
Steel assassinates; the passions kill. [ Mme. Deluzy ]
Strong souls, within the present live.
The future veiled, the past forgot;
Grasping what is, with hands of steel,
They bind what shall be, to their will. [ Lewis Morris ]
The tongue is not of steel, but it cuts. [ Proverb ]
A master of straw eats a servant of steel. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The tongue is not steel yet it cuts sorely. [ Proverb ]
The tyrant custom, most grave senators,
Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war
My thrice-driven bed of down. [ William Shakespeare ]
The rust rots the steel which use preserves. [ Edward Bulwer Lytton ]
She that has that is clad in complete steel. [ Milton ]
Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportioned thought his act.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd unfledged comrade. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]
Those Friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul, with hooks of steel. [ William Shakespeare ]
Treason has done his worst; nor steel, nor poison,
Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing
Can touch him further. [ William Shakespeare, Macbeth ]
Twine round thee threads of steel, like thread on thread,
That grow to fetters, or bind down thy arms
With chains concealed in chaplets. Oh, not yet
Mayst thou embrace thy corselet, nor lay by
Thy sword; not yet, O Freedom, close thy lids
In slumber; for thine enemy never sleeps.
And thou must watch and combat till the day
Of the new earth and heaven. [ Bryant ]
Arm the obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel. [ Milton ]
Ever keep thy promise, cost what it may; this it is to be true as steel.
[ Charles Reade ]
No workman steel, no ponderous axes rung: Like some tall palm the noiseless fabric sprung. [ Bishop Heber ]
Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances. [ Douglas Jerrold ]
The most civilised are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy. [ Rivarol ]
Polished steel will not shine in the dark; no more can reason, however refined, shine efficaciously, but as it reflects the light of Divine truth, shed from heaven. [ Foster ]
Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty. [ Mrs. Stowe ]
What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge. [ Wendell Phillips ]