Rapier Quotes

#1. Wit is something more than a gymnastic trick of the intellect; true wit implies a beam of thought into the essence of a question, a flash that lights up a situation. Wit suggests the delicate but delightful play of a rapier in the hands of a master.

Arthur Lynch

#2. Sarcasm is not the rapier of wit its wielders seem to believe it to be, but merely a club: it may, by dint of brute force, occasionally raise bruises, but it never cuts or pierces.

Rex Stout

#3. When I was young, I was trained in stage fighting and rapier and dagger for several years.

Suzanne Collins

#4. She was temptation wrapped in seduction, a Southern beauty with a viper's tongue, a
rapier wit and a bone-deep grit that rivaled his own. Yes, she'd basically blown his mind with her
brilliant concept of time

Gena Showalter

#5. A trial is still an ordeal by battle. For the broadsword there is the weight of evidence; for the battle-ax the force of logic; for the sharp spear, the blazing gleam of truth; for the rapier, the quick and flashing knife of wit.

Lloyd Paul Stryker

#6. His name was Reepicheep and he was a gay and martial mouse. He wore a tiny little rapier at his side and twirled his long whiskers as if they were a moustache.

C.S. Lewis

#7. Fencing is a funny sport. Competitive fencing is not really very applicable to the stage world unless you're fighting with a rapier during the Renaissance, you know?

Kris Holden-Ried

#8. Adieu, valour: rust, rapier: be still, drum, for your manager is in love: yea, he loveth. Assist me, some extemporal god of rhyme, for I am sure I shall turn sonnet. Devise, wit: write, pen, for I am for whole volumes in folio.

William Shakespeare

#9. I brandished my parasol at him like a rapier. You, sir, are an abominable scalawag of a man, and I'll be damned if I let you threaten me.

Susan Dennard

#10. I'm sorry. I use my rapier wit to hide my inner pain.

Cassandra Clare

#11. Anger can be borne - it can even be satisfying - if it can gather into words and explode in a storm, or a rapier-sharp attack. But without these means of ventilation, it only turns back inward, building and swirling like a head of stream - building to an impotent, murderous rage.

Eva Hoffman

#12. Bridgerton, he grunted. Damn damn damn. Colin Bridgerton was the last person he wanted to see right now. Even the ghost of Napoleon, come down to slice a rapier through his gullet, would have been preferable.

Julia Quinn

#13. With a ready tongue and rapier wit, Hamilton could wound people more than he realized, and he was so nimble in debate that even bright people sometimes felt embarrassingly tongue-tied in his presence.

Ron Chernow

#14. Rapier Squadron was transferred from Mirrin Prime and redeployed aboard a refitted Mon Calamari cruiser called Echo of Hope.

Greg Rucka

#15. You could not fence with an antagonist who met rapier thrust with blow of battle axe.

L.M. Montgomery

#16. My rapier wit hides my inner pain.

Cassandra Clare

#17. What's the point of havin' a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people.

Jeph Jacques

#18. Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life and the labors of life reduce themselves.

Edwin Way Teale

#19. The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.

Hortense Calisher

#20. I'm only just learning what language to use when I want my microphone turned down, you know, because it's all so new to me. It can be quite difficult on a daily basis to communicate with the people I work with, so I'm just looking forward to knowing more.

Duffy

#21. Time unfolds beauty, wonder, and mystery to reveal the auspicious tapestry of life.

A.D. Posey

#22. For a caterpillar to become a butterfly, it must forget it was ever a caterpillar at all. Then it will be as if the caterpillar never was, and there was only ever the butterfly.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#23. I don't pretend to know everything; I just only speak on matters I know I'll win.

Criss Jami

#24. There is a cowardly propensity in the human heart that delights in oppressing somebody else, and in the gratification of this base desire we always select a victim that can be outraged with safety.

James T. Rapier

#25. Nothing good can come from the Federal Reserve. It is the biggest taxer of them all. Diluting the value of the dollar by increasing its supply is a vicious, sinister tax on the poor and middle class.

Ron Paul

#26. By ignoring compliments and homages we lead the person paying those compliments to think we look down on him, when in fact we are only doubting ourselves.

Albert Camus

#27. It's funny, I write lyrics in a bizarre way - I'm always writing lyrics, mostly when we're traveling or walking around New York, that's when I'm writing most of the stuff.

Lizzy Plapinger

#28. We have flooded ourselves with the media in all its many forms. Our minds are now open to signals. We have become aerials.

Jeff Noon

#29. Come on," Falco said. "I'll see you safely home to your fancy sheets. I'd say you need your beauty sleep, but it looks like you've been getting plenty.

Fiona Paul

#30. I am held to answer for the crime of color when I was not consulted in the matter. Had I been consulted in the matter and my future fully described, I think I should have objected to being born in this gospel land.

James T. Rapier

#31. Nature repairs her ravages,
repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor.

George Eliot

#32. As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Gautama Buddha

#33. Maybe it was all right to let things be broken for awhile.

Elana K. Arnold