The question is: until reinforced, can we learn the ways of church mice.
Yeah, the cut throats and the pigs. But who wants all that blood spilled, judge, huh? Isn't there a simpler way of not pissing off the big vipers?
Pain or damage don't end the world.
I wouldn't trust a man who wouldn't try to steal a little.
You can't slit the throat of everyone whose character it would improve.
Bloodletting on my premises that I ain't approved I take as a f***ing affront. It puts me off my feed.