Top 100 Quotes About A Sword
#1. A weapon is a tool, and if it is beautiful, then it is beautiful because it is useful. A sword that could not fulfill its function would be ugly to my eyes no matter how fair its shape, not even if it were adorned with the finest jewels and the most intricate engraving.
Christopher Paolini
#2. Say that with a sword in your hand, Frey," the small man snarled. "Or do you only fight with smears of shit
George R R Martin
#3. Which was more important? Stability or the ability to watch over the others? Blood of my fathers, he thought. I wasn't made for this politicking and scheming. I was made to wield a sword and ride down enemies .
Brandon Sanderson
#5. Give me a sword and I will slay a man, give me a voice and I will slay a country.
Konrad
#6. I've looked at photographs of myself during concerts and it sometimes looks as if I'm in a fencing move, with a guitar in my hands instead of a sword.
Neil Diamond
#7. Snow White swallows that like a sword. She lets the hammer click back into place. Everything in her that's not nailed down is shaking loose.
Catherynne M Valente
#8. A Kind Act can sometimes be as Powerful as A Sword
Rick Riordan
#9. Has he come armed, then?" she asked anxiously. "Has he brought a pistol or a sword?"
Ian shook his head, his dark hair lifting wildly in the wind.
"Oh, no, Mam!" he said. "It's worse. He's brought a lawyer!
Diana Gabaldon
#10. 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.
Lucy Liu
#11. A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.
Seneca.
#12. Sword? Haven't got a sword. That boy has, though. He'll lend you one.
J.K. Rowling
#13. What woman doesn't want to go out there and kick some butt? I did it with a sword in 'Conan,' I did it with a crossbow in 'G.I. Joe,' and I've got my multi-tool and my super-suit in 'Continuum.' It's really a release, and it's quite cool.
Rachel Nichols
#14. I learned then that many a victory is easier won with words than a sword - and the results are better.
Louis L'Amour
#15. A fool is a man who believes glory can be found at the tip of a sword instead of on the tip of his tongue. That is life's cruel trick.
Natalia Jaster
#17. A man might as well hope to fight a swarm of flies with a sword as to master his own thoughts when they are set on by the devil.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#19. A journalist who doesn't bring a camera is like a warrior who doesn't carry a sword.
Lucio Tan
#20. You must learn to control your impulses," he said. "A sword wants to be used. It wants to draw blood. That is why it was forged, and it has no other purpose in the world. If you do not control it, then it will control you.
John Connolly
#21. There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.
George R R Martin
#22. Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.
G.K. Chesterton
#23. Those who do not fear the sword they wield have no right to wield a sword at all.
~Shuhei Hisagi
Tite Kubo
#24. It was the sort of bone deep emotion that made him want to hold her tighter with one hand, and draw a sword against the world with the other.
Jeaniene Frost
#25. In every election cycle that I can recall, there comes a moment - or a few - where charges of elitism and claims of commonness are wielded by presidential candidates like a sword and shield: 'Vote for me 'cause I'm one of you. It's the other guy who's out of touch.'
John Ridley
#26. Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
Confucius
#27. Only a heathen brings a gun to a sword fight."
"Only a moron brings a sword to a gunfight.
Derek Landy
#28. It's very hard to do that many things at the same time - having to dance and sing and be on a horse with a sword. It does get quite confusing.
Joshua Sasse
#29. Personally, I'm happy I haven't run into a murderous killer since, well ... since you chopped my ex's head off with a sword.
Amy Plum
#30. The true warrior understands that while one is learning how to use a sword,
R.A. Salvatore
#31. 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.
Orlando Bloom
#32. How would you feel," Elayne said softly, "if you saw your queen trying to kill a Trolloc with a sword as you ran away?"
"I'd feel like I needed to bloody move to another country," Birgitte snapped, loosing another arrow, "one where the monarchs don't have pudding for brains.
Robert Jordan
#33. Superior strength is a sword that manifests one's will.
Hiroyuki Takei
#34. The days sported by us, as if Time had not grown up himself yet, but were a child too, and always at play. I told Em'ly I adored her, and that unless she confessed she adored me I should be reduced to the necessity of killing myself with a sword. She said she did, and I have no doubt she did.
Charles Dickens
#35. Listen to me, all you in distant lands! Pay attention, you who are far away! The LORD called me before my birth; from within the womb he called me by name. 2 He made my words of judgment as sharp as a sword. He has hidden me in the shadow of his hand. I am like a sharp arrow in his quiver.
Anonymous
#36. word is like a sword; you should be wise when to use it or it'll kill and ruin everything you did in your past, you're doing at this time, and you're gonna do in the future
A. Vaidyanathan
#37. Men and swords. My father said that if you put any able-bodied man, no matter how peaceful, into a room with a sword and a practice dummy and leave him alone, eventually the man would pick up the sword and try to stab the dummy. It is human nature.
Ilona Andrews
#38. We'd spent maybe ten minutes together, during which time I'd accidentally swung a sword at her, she'd saved my life, and I'd run away chased by a band of supernatural killing machines. You know, your typical chance meeting.
Rick Riordan
#39. I took the name Green Destiny from - well there is such a sword called Green Destiny. It is green because you keep twisting it, it's an ancient skill, you keep twisting it and knocking it and twisting it until it is very elastic and light.
Ang Lee
#40. A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
Robert Burton
#41. This land needed a sword forged in the hottest of fires to regain what was lost...and you are that sword.
S. Alexander O'Keefe
#43. Careless words stab like a sword, but the words of the wise bring healing. Proverbs 12:18 Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rescue of those who are crushed. Proverbs 31:8
Wendy Duke
#44. A sword's a sword, a helm's a helm, and if you reach in the fire you get burned, no matter who you're serving.
George R R Martin
#45. Ser Rodrik groused. His opinion of singers was well known; music was a lovely thing for girls, but he could not comprehend why any healthy boy would fill his hand with a harp when he might have had a sword.
George R R Martin
#46. Ronan's smile was sharp and hooked as one of the creature's claws. "'A sword is never a killer; it is a tool in the killer's hand'."
"I can't believe Noah didn't stick around to help."
"Sure you can. Never trust the dead.
Maggie Stiefvater
#49. He did his thing, and I did mine. Mine involved standing there with a sword in a bin liner waiting for something to try and kill us. Nothing did.
Alexis Hall
#50. Laughter and tears are not separate experiences, with intervals of rest: they rush out together and it is like walking with a sword between your legs.
Anais Nin
#51. He who does not fear the sword he holds is not worthy of holding a sword.
-Hisagi Shuuhei
Tite Kubo
#52. Cookies, a dragon dog, and a sword: what every well-equipped little girl takes on a journey.
Deborah Blake
#53. A sword is sharp, but can conquer the body alone. The tongue is small, but can conquer hearts, minds and souls.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#54. It was another of the essential ingredients that she felt her son needed: people with a goal. Such people would be easy to imbue with fervor and fanaticism. They could be wielded like a sword to win back Paul's place for him.
Frank Herbert
#55. A man needs an allegiance. He must have a cause and an identity that lays claim over him and compels him to pick up a plow to cultivate it or a sword to defend it.
Cliff Graham
#56. He can surround a sword with flames."
Freya sounded proud of him. That irritated Ena. He was her prisoner and only she had the right to feel proud of him as far as she was concerned.
Terry Spear
#57. Religion is often used as a sword to divide, rather than as a balm to heal.
Jim Wallis
#58. And high above, depicted in a tower,
Sat Conquest, robed in majesty and power,
Under a sword that swung above his head,
Sharp-edged and hanging by a subtle thread.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#59. I look up. Raffe and the others are frozen in the middle of their fight. Everyone is staring at us. A human girl. Killing a warrior angel. In a sword fight. Impossible.
Susan Ee
#60. Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants.
Elizabeth Montagu
#62. I couldn't pick up a sword and go fight anyone, let me put it that way. It's choreography and it's acting. The best sword fights you see look amazing, but it's the acting that sells it more than anything.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
#63. You can't kill the Devil with a sword.
Ann Lee
#64. Defeat exists but not suffering. A true warrior knows that when he loses a battle, he is improving the skill with which he wields a sword. He will be able to fight more skilfullly next time.
Paulo Coelho
#65. You each name yourself king, yet the kingdom bleeds and no one lefts a sword to defend it but my son.
George R R Martin
#66. While I write this letter, I have a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other.
Boyle Roche
#67. A lord who knows how to wield men is ten times more fearsome than one who knows only how to wield a sword.
Ken Liu
#68. I've always been a bit puzzled about that story. What's so hard about pulling a sword out of a stone? The real work's already been done. You ought to make yourself useful and find the man who put the sword in the stone in the first place, eh? There
Terry Pratchett
#69. I got into my very theatrical phase. I wore only black: a big black hat and wild hair and wild black clothes, and I carried a sword stick. I went there still looking like Miss Florida, and I came back looking very different.
Delta Burke
#70. I find it rude to laugh at a man with a sword.
Derek Landy
#71. I was fourteen, watching 'The Princess Bride' for the 254321th time, captivated by Wesley and Inigo dueling on the cliff-top. I had never held a sword in my life, but I phoned my mum and said, 'I want to learn to fence!'
V.E Schwab
#72. If I were a woman I should march out with a flaming torch and a sword; I should emasculate right and left.
Patrick O'Brian
#73. Eden," Cyrus snapped bringing her back to the present. "I have a sword pointed at you. Will you please focus
Samantha Young
#74. Then maybe you can help me out with something. I need an armaments shop. I want to buy a sword. A really good one." Jace looked surprised, then amused. "What for?" "Oh, you know. Killing." Clary made a hand gesture she hoped conveyed her murderous intentions toward all things evil.
Cassandra Clare
#75. It didn't matter how hard you could swing a sword, if you couldn't hit anything.
Terry Goodkind
#76. What, does he have a sword for a penis? Fallon asked.
Gail McHugh
#77. I don't see what the big deal is."
"It's a sword made out of your grandmother's bones, Kate."
I shrugged.
Ilona Andrews
#78. Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.
Akhenaton
#79. Sorcery was a sword without a hilt. There is no sfe way to grasp it.
George R R Martin
#80. He had a sword. There was that about him: when this man held a sword, it was clearly being held, and held by him. The eye was drawn to it. Even Jade would have been impressed.
Terry Pratchett
#81. From a blueblood noble house. Only the blueblood man was allowed to enter. He sat in their kitchen, an older grizzled warrior with a sword on his waist, and laid it all out. Only bluebloods
Ilona Andrews
#82. The path to wisdom leads downward, and anyone who decides to take it had better buckle on armor, remember to bring a sword, and get used to the idea that when and if he gets back everyone he talks to is going to think he's a phony.
Peter Straub
#83. Hi, my name is Ryan Foxheart. Oh no! There's danger afoot! Let me pull out my sword and pose." I mimed pulling a sword from my side and cocked an eyebrow. "Notice how dashing I am. And immaculate. And today, my hair is parted on the right. Wink.
T.J. Klune
#84. Just because you hold a sword, does not mean it is the only weapon you can use to win the battle.
Marc Cameron
#85. In a sword-fighting drill, where one participant is going to mount an attack and the other is to respond in some way, the attacker is known as the agent and the respondent is known as the patient.
Neal Stephenson
#86. Would you rather leave?"
"Absolutely not. I may be bloodied, but I can still carry a sword.
Lorraine Heath
#88. And I won't be needing a sword to kill you." He strode towards Skulduggery, who raised his hand. "Um, since you're not going to be using it, can I?
Derek Landy
#90. What is written with a sword cannot be erased.
Lev Grossman
#91. It's good to be the king.
Except when you get hit in the head with a sword.
Mark Lawrence
#92. Visitors come and go.
Daily I read tea leaves for signs
of the approaching century:
a raven perched on a cross
a sword piercing a cloud
A Victorian Life
Clara Blackwood
#93. Because I am still learning to walk and talk, and it is a million times easier to be cynical and wield a sword, than it is to be open-hearted and stand there, holding a balloon and a birthday cake, with the infinite potential to look foolish.
Caitlin Moran
#94. The pen can be just as dangerous as a sword... At least while walking.
A.J. DeJong
#95. How sad. A leader bereft of followers. An angel with severed wings. A warrior without a sword." Beliel circles Raffe like a shark as he taunts him. "You have nothing left."
"He has me," I say.
Susan Ee
#96. If your enemy comes to speak bearing a sword, open your door to him and speak, but keep your own sword at hand. If he comes to you empty-handed, greet him the same way. But if he comes to you bearing gifts, stand on your walls and cast stones down on him.
Tad Williams
#97. I learned the importance of the Bible and came to believe with all my heart in its full inspiration. It became a sword in my hand to break open the hearts of men, to direct them to the Lord Jesus Christ.
Billy Graham
#98. Man without a sword is still a warrior, but one with no shield is just a target.
Robert Low
#99. If I am a sword, I am a sword made of glass, and I feel myself beginning to shatter.
Victoria Aveyard
#100. Kingship wrought of Infinite worship,
Quick-forged by the Swift Sure Hand;
Bold in Righteousness,
Valiant in Justice,
A sword of honor to defend the clans of Albion!
Stephen R. Lawhead
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