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Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain. - Honore de Balzac And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends. - Bible, Zechariah (ch. XIII, v. 6) H' had got a hurt O' th' inside of a deadlier sort. - Samuel Butler (1), Hudibras (pt. I, canto III, l. 309) What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and but heal to wear That which disfigures it. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Childe Harold (canto III, st. 84) The wound is for you, but the pain is for me. [Fr., La blessure est pour vous, la douleur est pour moi.] - Charles IX, to Coligny, who was fatally wounded in the massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands. [Lat., Tempore ducetur longo fortasse cicatrix; Horrent admotas vulnera cruda manus.] - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Epistoloe Ex Ponto (I, 3, 15) The wounded gladiator forswears all fighting, but soon forgetting his former wound resumes his arms. [Lat., Saucius ejurat pugnam gladiator, et idem Immemor antiqui vulneris arma capit.] - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Epistoloe Ex Ponto (I, 5, 37) Thou hast wounded the spirit that loved thee And cherish'd thine image for years; Thou hast taught me at last to forget thee, In secret, in silence, and tears. - Mrs. David Porter, Thou Hast Wounded the Spirit I tell you that which you yourselves do know, Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths, And bid them speak for me. - William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (Antony at III, ii) Safe in a ditch he bides, With twenty trenched gashes on his head, The least a death to nature. - William Shakespeare, Macbeth (First Murderer at III, iv) What wound did ever heal but my degrees? - William Shakespeare, Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at II, iii) He jests at scars that never felt a wound. - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (Romeo at II, ii) The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To th' bottom of the worst. - William Shakespeare, The History of Troilus and Cressida (Hector at II, ii) How he in peace is wounded, not in war. - William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece (l. 831) The private wound is deepest. O time most accurst, 'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst! - William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Valentine at V, iv) Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion. - William Makepeace Thackeray, Roundabout Papers--The Thorn in the Cushion Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth. - Rebecca West (pseudonym of Mrs. Cicely Fairfield Andrews)
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