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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.
- Last Updated on Aug 01, 2026
- King Lear
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Iron Lady' is not a biopic. Phyllida Lloyd and Meryl Streep coined it 'King Lear for girls.'
- Rod
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let tyrants shake their iron rod.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved 'Iron Man.'
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tony Stark in 'Iron Man' helped wider audiences finally embrace the enormous talent of Robert Downey Jr.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands.
- Nov 07, 2020
The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth.
- Compound
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- Nov 07, 2020
Catalytic oxidation in living substances rests upon change of valency in an iron compound which is the respiratory oxygen-transferring ferment.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 natural thing.
- Lady
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- Nov 07, 2020
What Britain needs is an iron lady.
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020
As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines.
- Nov 07, 2020