Sword Quotes

The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.

Shows can come and go. They can be a hit and then in three years, gone. There's some comfort in having the stability of a job and having children. It's a double-edged sword.

I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.

The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.

At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword.

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.

In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but at a price. We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. Marx knew that the epic activities of the modern world involve not lance and sword but dry goods.

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.

Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England.

There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.

There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.

The sword was a very elegant weapon in the days of the samurai. You had honor and chivalry much like the knights, and yet it was a gruesome and horrific weapon.

A sword, a spade, and a thought should never be allowed to rust.

And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.

Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants.

Women who wear kimonos, when the fight, they have to keep their knees together, and when they use a sword, they have to move the sleeves otherwise it gets caught.

The pen is mightier than the sword.

The world may end up under a Sword of Damocles on a tightrope over the abyss.

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.

So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.

Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.

King Arthur was one of my heroes - I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle's cane for the sword Excalibur.

Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.

The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.

It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle.

With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.

Bring back dueling, I say. Drive-by sword fight.

The longest sword, the strongest lungs, the most voices, are false measures of truth.