Quotes on Snaps

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and bites you.

A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it.

It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely. (Hercule Poirot)

Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.