Quotes about dip
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“While the galleries were all applausive of heart, and the Fourth Estate looked with eyes enlightened, as if you had touched its lips with a staff dipped in honey,—I have sat with reflections too ghastly to be uttered.”

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher

1850s, Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), Stump Orator (May 1, 1850)

“The present government is a hand stained with blood, which dips a finger in the holy water.”

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist

Book II, X
Napoleon the Little (1852)

“If ink and pen are snatched from me, shall I
Who have dipped my finger in my heart's blood complain—
Of if they seal my tongue, when I have made
A mouth of every round link of my chain?”

Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1911–1984) Punjabi poet

Poems by Faiz, translated by Victor Kiernan, 1971, p. 117
Poetry, Stanzas