Top 100 Sword Quotes
#1. Jael returned the lazy smile. "You're not my type."
"Well, you're not anybody's type," said Hazael. "No, wait. I take it back. My sword says she'd like to know you better.
Laini Taylor
#2. He who lives by the sword shall die by the sword ... unless he's a general.
Brian Spellman
#3. Honor is Surplus Dignity: Honor, at its simplest, is that excess dignity that must be defended with the knife or sword. Wherever honor is at issue, it comes with a sense that dignity can be lost, and therefore must be constantly defended.
David Graeber
#4. Who ever said keeping the law of the Lord is peaceable work? The devil brings a sword and I bring a sword back to him. It is the will of the Lord and I am his servant.
Joe R. Lansdale
#5. My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.
John Bunyan
#6. The strength comes only from your mind. Fingertips. Wrist. Thighs. Brain. These are your weapons. The sword is merely a beautiful accessory.
Kelly Gardiner
#7. guard. It is in this sense that I recommend the guard without a guard. Whatever the situation is, you hold the sword so that you can slash your opponent.
Miyamoto Musashi
#8. Damn the sword! When Virginia wanted a sword, I gave her one. Now she sends me a toy! I require bread!
George Rogers Clark
#9. In his youth, he was electrified. The stars were moving in his bloodstream. He would not have been cowed by the customs of an earthly monarch. When he loved, it was with a heat and a desperation that he carried like a sword. He loved in the way that Greeks burned cities.
Brenna Yovanoff
#10. Moorcock's interlinked 'Eternal Champion' series is a constant source of enjoyment. Of its tragic hero incarnations, my favourite is 'Elric of Melnibone,' and the best book has to be 'Stormbringer.' And as for that other sword, Excalibur? Pah! Use it to spread your butter.
Neal Asher
#11. The preaching of God's word is hateful and contrary unto them. Why? For it is impossible to preach Christ, except thou preach against antichrist; that is to say, them which with their false doctrine and violence of sword enforce to quench the true doctrine of Christ.
William Tyndale
#12. The creature took Aelin's face in its hands, and her sword thudded to the ground, forgotten.
Rowan was screaming as the creature pulled her into its arms. As she stopped fighting. As her flames winked out and darkness swallowed her whole.
Sarah J. Maas
#13. The world changes. Now, one needs no army and no sword to conquer the world.
Diana Peterfreund
#14. Ringil lifted his right hand as if it pained him, put it slowly and wonderingly up to his shoulder and touched the pommel of his sword like, well, like he was caressing someone's prick, to be honest.
Richard K. Morgan
#15. So. You get handed a holy sword by an archangel, told to go fight the forces of evil, and you somehow remain an atheist. Is that what you're saying?
Jim Butcher
#16. When balancing a bottle of nitroglycerin on the point of a sword, never complicate the task by trying to tap dance.
Dean Koontz
#17. The enemy is not the person standing before you, sword in hand. It is the person standing next to you with a dagger concealed behind his back.
Paulo Coelho
#18. Silena appeared out of the woods, her sword drawn. Her Aphrodite armour was pink and red, colour coordinated to match her clothes and makeup. She looked like Guerilla Warfare Barbie.
Rick Riordan
#19. One by one, these disciples would infect the nations with grace. It wasn't a call to take the sword or the throne and force the world to bow. Rather, they were to live the contagious love of God, to woo the nations into a new future.
Shane Claiborne
#20. My pen is my sword, my faith is my shield, my love is my armour.
Jason J. Black
#21. This is madness, Catelyn thought. Real enemies on every side and half the realm in flames, and Renly sits here playing at war like a boy with his first wooden sword.
George R R Martin
#22. A sword and a shotgun lay across brackets in the wall, the rhinestones that covered them glittering under the overhanging lightbulb. Ethan startled
Blake Crouch
#23. raid your library. read everything you can get your hands on & then some. go on, collect words & polish them up until they shine like starlight in your palm. make words your finest weapons - a gold-hilted sword to cut your enemies d o w n. - a survival plan of sorts.
Amanda Lovelace
#24. You can be beautiful, kind and, also, strong. Strength can be shown in very many ways besides a sword or bow.
Ufuoma Apoki
#25. For a brief moment the previous day, I'd felt a flicker of kinship with him because of my own barrenness, but he brandished his brokenness like a sword, ready to cut anyone who displeased him because someone in Pharaoh's household had once cut him.
Kristen Reed
#26. I trained in combat, sword fighting, horse riding ... It's empowering knowing that I can a break man's nose with my elbow.
Gwendoline Christie
#27. The Bible refers to the Word as 'the sword of the Spirit.' What battles are you not winning if you are not equipped with your sword?
Monica Johnson
#28. If the world is unjust, get drunk, wave a sword, then cut off heads.
A Que
#30. Welcome to thee,
O sword of eternity!
Through Buddha
And through Daruma alike
Thou hast cleft thy way.
Okakura Kakuzo
#31. I will not serve with oathbreakers and murderers.
[Jaime, Inwardly] Then why did you ever bother putting on a sword?
George R R Martin
#32. Force cannot organize anything.In the long run, the sword is always beaten by the spirit by which I mean the civil and religious institutions of a nation.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#33. There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.
John Adams
#34. My biggest fear is that the enlightened Arab thinkers are gong to leave the Arab world in search of fresh air: somewhere far away from the sword of the religious authorities.
Raif Badawi
#35. She's only a girl. What kind of men are you?'
'Dead ones?' asked Drith, who yanked the door open and put her sword through Narses' throat.
Donna Thorland
#36. Now there is a fitting sword for a Rider and dragon! said Saphira in a delighted tone. It breathes fire as easily as I do.
Christopher Paolini
#37. Never regret the things you have done, only the things you have never tried ~ Unknown Author
#AmWriting Sword fights with a Paranormal twist
Unknown
#38. I love period pieces. It's where my skill sets lie, with the horseback riding, the sword fighting and the accents. I love that world, and I love working on those big, epic shows. That's what I hope to find myself in, in the future.
Kris Holden-Ried
#39. The guy hefted the sword, weighing it. "What's a pretty thing like you want with a sword anyway?"
"She's going to use it to castrate guys who ask stupid questions," Blythe answered for me, her voice flat.
Rachel Hawkins
#40. Tanith has a sword.' said Valkyrie. 'I want a stick.'
'I'll get you a stick for Christmas
Derek Landy
#41. The intense media coverage of today's campus shootings presents a double edged sword. On the one hand, it gives us a chance to think about and reflect on the causes; on the other hand, in a very small minority of unstable minds, the repeated telling of the stories can be interpreted as glamorous.
Matthew Pearl
#42. Tears, she said scornfully to Sansa as the woman was led from the hall. The woman's weapon, my lady mother used to call them. The man's weapon is a sword. And that tells us all you need to know, doesn't it?
George R R Martin
#43. He held the sword as if he's used one before," Rhys said.
The stranger snorted. "Of course I've used a sword. What kind of Highlander can no' wield a blade?
Donna Grant
#44. My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer and I have my mind ... and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much Jon Snow.
George R R Martin
#45. Who knows, my friend? Maybe the sword does have some magic. Personally, I think it's the warrior who wields it.
Brian Jacques
#47. But what is a slingshot against a 220 pound male with a sword?
Suzanne Collins
#48. Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
Thomas Hobbes
#49. There are in the world, two powers. The sword and the spirit. The spirit has always vanquished the sword.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#50. A sword so fine must bear a name. It would please me if you would call this one Oathkeeper.
George R R Martin
#51. Jeez, what did he think I was, a lust demon? I wanted Logan to show me how to use his sword, not show me how to use his man sword.
Cara Lynn Shultz
#52. We are the sword and the arrow. We do not falter and we do not fear. We are the Protector
Kara Otto
#53. Upon his arm he bare a gay bracer*, *small shield And by his side a sword and a buckler, And on that other side a gay daggere, Harnessed well, and sharp as point of spear:
Geoffrey Chaucer
#54. Rawr! I'm a duke of Hell, bitches!' and then he was like, 'This is my turf! Welcome to Castle Cocksucker!' and then he was all, 'You're all gonna die!' and then it was, 'Fuck, this sword hurts!' and finally he was like, 'Oh fuck, I'm dead!
Elliott Kay
#55. The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.
Menander
#56. The moon rose, striking fire from the Cimmerian's horned helmet. No call awoke the echoes; yet suddenly the night grew tense and the jungle held its breath. Instinctively Conan loosened the great sword in its sheath.
Robert E. Howard
#57. Awesome. I'd terrified the Legatus of the Golden Legion just by showing him my sword. If I waved it around, he'd probably explode.
Ilona Andrews
#58. Perhaps he should have fallen to his knees and given thanks to the gods for their unlikely victory but the red harvest sword-hacked and arrow-stuck about the ruin did not look like a thing to give thanks for.
Joe Abercrombie
#59. Ain't it God's sword, fell from the sky? I thought it had to be passed on. Is it cursed?"
Craw took up the reins and turned back to the north. "Every sword's a curse, boy.
Joe Abercrombie
#60. I grew up riding all my life, so I was very comfy on a horse, thank God. Although I'd never ridden ... with sword in my hand.
Joshua Sasse
#61. The pen is mightier than the sword - It's also easier to write with!
Benny Hill
#62. There's not much you need to know about the world. Except how to use a sword and trust very few.
Melina Marchetta
#63. All things in common nature should produce
Without sweat or endeavour. Treason, felony,
Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine,
Would I not have; but nature should bring forth,
Of it own kind, all foison, all abundance,
To feed my innocent people.
William Shakespeare
#64. Anger is a shield for the power of the sword's magic, so that helped.
Terry Goodkind
#65. Besides, captain, have you no interest in seeing Lord Henarald's expression when he learns that my master seeks to commission a sword?' Galar Baras's head snapped round in shock.
Steven Erikson
#66. Katana is a trained, disciplined martial artist. She removes herself from Birds of Prey to go on a personal journey in Japantown, San Francisco, and pursue a quest for vengeance against the Sword Clan, the men that killed her husband.
Ann Nocenti
#67. Uri...vinciri...verberari...ferroque necari.
I will endure to be burned... to be bound... to be beaten... and to be killed by the sword.
Lesley Livingston
#68. He would like best of all to persecute us with fire and sword, but this method has availed him little because through the blood of martyrs the church has been watered.
Martin Luther
#69. And here you come
with a shield for a heart
and a sword for a tongue
Carol Ann Duffy
#70. Great writers wield their words like a weapon; a double-edged sword to strike their readers with truth where they least expect it. -Matthew D. Forgenti
Matthew D. Forgenti
#71. If the sword of oppression be permitted to lop off one limb without opposition, reiterated strokes will soon dismember the whole body.
Alexander Hamilton
#72. wire-wound hilt greeted his fingers. The sword lay on the ground beside him.
Terry Goodkind
#73. What is our vision on this earth - war to the end of all generations and life by the sword?
Moshe Sharett
#74. Would you rather leave?"
"Absolutely not. I may be bloodied, but I can still carry a sword.
Lorraine Heath
#75. Every sword that was dripping the blood became a pen. Every word that was written in it became a poetry.
Akshay Vasu
#76. Hearth signed, 'is it talking? I don't read sword lips.'
'what is he saying?' Jack asked. 'I don't read elf hands
Rick Riordan
#77. There is no shame in losing to the sword of the Prince. There is only shame in choosing not to follow Him.
Chuck Black
#78. He'll use the sword to set in motion a chain of events to hasten Doomsday.
Rick Riordan
#79. How're we gonna bring the big hag round?" said Big Yan.
"I heard where ye has to put someone's heid between their legs," said Rob doubtfully.
Daft Wullie sighed and drew his sword. "Sounds a wee bit drastic tae me," he said, "but if someone will help me hold her steady-
Terry Pratchett
#81. And, hovering inches from her throat, was the tip of the warrior's flint sword.
Steven Erikson
#82. 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
#84. What is written with a sword cannot be erased.
Lev Grossman
#85. Sikhism was then, as Muhammadanism
in the seventh and eighth centuries, and
Wahabeeism in the present, a religion of the sword, and the new converts appeared as ready to fight with each other as with the common enemy against whom
alone they ever united.
Lepel Henry Griffin
#86. Christ's teaching, which came to be known to men, not by means of violence and the sword," they say, "but by means of non-resistance to evil, gentleness, meekness, and peaceableness, can only be diffused through the world by the example of peace, harmony, and love among its followers.
Leo Tolstoy
#87. It's good to be the king.
Except when you get hit in the head with a sword.
Mark Lawrence
#89. Old Nan used to tell stories about knights and their ladies who would sleep in a single bed with a blade between them for honor's sake, but he thought this must be the first time where a direwolf took the place of the sword.
George R R Martin
#91. The fashion accessories of Justitia, the Roman goddess of justice, express the logic succinctly: (1) scales; (2) blindfold; (3) sword.
Steven Pinker
#93. The sword has spoke the truth - in authority and wisdom - only the sword O Damascus is certain!
Nizar Qabbani
#94. Then, I feel it; it was a hot that was like a burning sword, fine, slicing my skin in pieces, and not even my jacket could protect me from the hot. Then it goes, as unexpected like it came, lifting dirt from the floor and a smell I remember, metal, and the only thing it could be: blood.
Ana Plascencia
#96. Deal. Now, could you please untie my sword hand from my head? I feel like a freaking unicorn.
Rick Riordan
#97. Once you take sword in your hand, you will lose your right to talk about the peace! Man of peace and love never takes the sword in his hand!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#98. The pen might be mightier than the sword, but the keyboard never runs out of ink.
Jason Landry
#99. In the midst of the lake Arthur was ware of an arm clothed in white samite, that held a fair sword in that hand.
Thomas Malory
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