Iron Quotes

Iron as material, metaphor, and pop culture icon.

This collection of iron quotes moves from an ancient proverb about mutual sharpening to modern popular culture, showing how the metal became shorthand for resilience. Related reading: our Strength quotes.

Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.

Quotes by Abu Bakar Bashir

'The Iron Lady' is not a biopic. Phyllida Lloyd and Meryl Streep coined it 'King Lear for girls.'

Quotes by Abi Morgan

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Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar.

Quotes by William Drummond

Let tyrants shake their iron rod.

Quotes by William Billings

I loved 'Iron Man.'

Quotes by Ty Simpkins

Tony Stark in 'Iron Man' helped wider audiences finally embrace the enormous talent of Robert Downey Jr.

Quotes by Tom Hiddleston

I prefer being penetrated by iron to seeing Palestine is loose.

Quotes by Theodor Herzl

Manchester's history is cotton and wool. Birmingham's is iron and steel.

Quotes by Steven Knight

Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands.

Quotes by Ryszard Kapuscinski

I wrote a big animation scene for 'Iron Fists,' but we couldn't afford all that.

Quotes by Rza

The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth.

Quotes by Rose Schneiderman

Catalytic oxidation in living substances rests upon change of valency in an iron compound which is the respiratory oxygen-transferring ferment.

Quotes by Otto Heinrich Warburg

When I came to the high-performance arena, I was kind of a one-off in a lot of ways. I was as much an iron man as much as I was a cricketer. Having surfed, fished, hunted, that was just a...

Quotes by Matthew Hayden

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

Quotes by Margaret Thatcher

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

Quotes by King Solomon

'Iron Man' and 'Iron Man 2' are as Jon Favreau films as you can see.

Quotes by Kevin Feige

I was a fighting machine with a will of iron.

Quotes by Jurgen Klopp

You gotta strike while the iron's hot.

Quotes by Josh Schwartz

We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines.

Quotes by Jose Clemente Orozco

Now comes the reign of iron.

Quotes by John Ericsson

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Whether describing rulers who governed with a firm hand or a beloved on-screen hero, these lines treat iron as a lasting symbol of durability. See also our Toughness and Element quotes.