Broadswords Quotes

#1. Why would anyone want to travel to Scotland? That wild country had nothing to offer but a bunch of unkempt men in kilts waving broadswords and screaming battle cries.

Victoria Roberts

#2. The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie?
I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky.
The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing;
Rush in and die, dogs - I was a man before I was a king.

Robert E. Howard

#4. A fortified town is like a man cased in the heavy armor of antiquity, with a horse-load of broadswords and small arms slung to him, endeavoring to go about his business.

Henry David Thoreau

#5. She didn't tell me to use a condom, so I didn't: a bit of a risk, but it's her risk, not mine,

David Mitchell

#6. I am suggesting that you take as many opportunities as possible in college to step away from whatever specialized program of study you have decided to pursue and have the kind of experience that the humanities can give you.

William Deresiewicz

#7. When the hoary old question of nature versus nurture comes around, sides form quickly.

Simon Blackburn

#8. Mere Morality can be summarized as: using instinct, law, and reason as guides, try to act with the intention of minimizing harm.

Dan Barker

#9. He was a nice boy, a friendly boy, and very shy, and it made him bitter.

Ernest Hemingway,

#10. She makes a very beautiful corpse, sir. It's quite a privilege to attend on her. It's not too much to say that she will do credit to our establishment!

Bram Stoker

#11. Anglesey has two deserts, one made by Nature, the other made by Man: Newborough and Parys Mountain.

Edward Greenly

#12. Then he'd come back home and found out that war didn't cause fear - love did.

Patricia Briggs