Hoist by His Own Petard/Quotes
If you're gonna hire Machete to kill the bad guy, you'd better make damn sure the bad guy isn't you!
—Machete trailer, Grindhouse
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Violence, in truth, recoils upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit he has dug for another.
—Sherlock Holmes, paraphrasing The Bible, in regard to the death of Doctor Grimesby Roylott in The Adventure of the Speckled Band
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Ares: I was trying... to make you a great warrior! |
Sideshow Bob: Oh dear...Sideshow Bob...hoist...on his own petard... |
Do you think Saint Thrastus complained when he was strung up by his petard? No! Not one word! That's piety. Now get on with your work, you little ingrate.
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Vandegraffe: It is a horribly blasphemous Yu'Vath lance weapon... Not sure I'd allow my players to install one on their ship since the technology base is so different. — from the official Rogue Trader forum
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He who digs a hole and scoops it out falls into the pit he has made. The trouble he causes recoils on himself; his violence comes down on his own head.
—The Bible (New International Version), Psalms 7:15-16
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If a man digs a pit, he will fall into it; if a man rolls a stone, it will roll back on him.
—The Bible (New International Version), Proverbs 26:27
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Why, as a woodcock to mine own springe, Osric. I am justly killed with mine own treachery.
—Laertes, Hamlet
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Narrator: It looks as though Boris Badenov is now hoist with his own petard. Meanwhile... |
The irony is exquisite, isn't it? Your mutant gifts will be used to bring your kind to its knees. This is your true destiny: the harbinger of mutant extinction.
—Bastion, X-Men Next Dimension
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But I'm not my "kind", not anymore — your shadow leeches saw to that. I'm half Toa of Light, half Toa of Shadow. This was what you wanted, wasn't it? Toa consumed by darkness, Toa not hampered by things like mercy or morality. Well, now you can choke on it.
—Takanuva, Bionicle
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Henry: Put things right? I killed her! Like you wanted! But you never returned to me! — Sluggy Freelance Haunted House story. 2001-12-06
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The Bangalore torpedo was 50 feet long and packed with 85 pounds of TNT, and you assembled it along the way - by hand. I'd love to meet the asshole who invented it.
—Description of how soldiers can still get hoist by their own petard in The Big Red One
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A tyrant is like an eagle; he looks down from a high place for prey to rend. Until one day, when swooping, he miscalculates —from Ed Greenwood, on twitter
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Tanya (thinking): The fate of the fleet is in my hands... Failure isn't an option. This is a huge undertaking! fucking hell!! That's enormous pressure!!! Was this Rudersdorf's idea? Or did General Zettour put it into his head? -No... |
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." |
- ↑ with a single ship, and not fully active one at that, but crippled and left for dead centuries ago