Sword Quotes

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.

Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.

I read H.P. Lovecraft. I also like Sword and Sorcery stuff, Arthurian legend.

Shields were generally made of wood, covered with leather, or some similar substance. To secure them, in some sort, from being cut through by the sword, they were surrounded with a hoop of metal.

Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.

He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through, someone is lying wounded and thousands of others are either angry or consoled.

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword - two jackets, one that's driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.

Unlike Christianity, which preached a peace that it never achieved, Islam unashamedly came with a 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.

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 wear my Pen as others do their Sword.

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.

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

Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

The pen is mightier than the sword.