Swordsman 2 Quotes

#1. I am not sure if women are attracted to genius. Can you imagine the wise wizard winning the woman over the gallant swordsman? It seems rather otherworldly in more ways than one.

Criss Jami

#2. Danger was the grindstone on which the swordsman whetted his spirit. Enemies were teachers in disguise.

Eiji Yoshikawa

#3. Peter was a superb swordsman, and parried with dazzling rapidity; ever and anon he followed up a feint with a lunge that got past his foe's defense, but his shorter reach stood him in ill stead, and he could not drive the steel home

J.M. Barrie

#4. When you meet a swordsman, draw your sword: Do not recite poetry to one who is not a poet.

Robert Greene

#5. But it says here,' said Ridcully, 'that you are a finest swordsman,' 'I was outnumbered.' 'How many of them were there?' 'Three million.

Terry Pratchett

#6. The best swordsman in the world may be disarmed by a trick that's new to him.

C.S. Lewis

#7. When the mindfulness of a samurai swordsman fails, he loses his life. When we lose mindfulness in daily life, something similar happens. We become so entangled in our own thoughts and emotions that we lose contact with the bigger picture.

Culadasa

#8. I am an expert swordsman. And I am skilled in the business of death. I take no pleasure in my skill. Simply, I am good at it.

Oliver Bowden

#9. Quintus ... " Geryon mused. "Short gray hair, muscular, swordsman?"
"Yeah."
"Never heard of him,

Rick Riordan

#10. Musashi, who trained himself, became a master swordsman who was never defeated.

Kerr Cuhulain

#11. I let the insults go by. A good swordsman doesn't pay attention to words in a fight.

Ellen Kushner

#12. In Memoriam, Louis Anglesey, Earl of Upnor, finest swordsman in England, beaten to death with a stick by an Irishman.

Neal Stephenson

#13. The ablest swordsman, Hendran wrote, the consummate tactician, the peerless general: All seem invulnerable until luck turns against them. Make no mistake - place a man in death's way enough times, and his luck will turn.

Brian Staveley

#14. I know nothing about how to win over others. I know only the way know the way to win over myself.
attributed to the (master) swordsman Yagyu, who was a teacher (and samurai?) to the Shogun himself.

Tsunetomo Yamamoto

#15. Swordsman in the last three hundred years." "Maybe he'll go easy on me," I said. The camper snorted. Luke showed me thrusts

Rick Riordan

#16. Wouldn't you rather play chess, Ma'am? ... It's less destructive of clothes.

Rowena Cherry

#17. The master swordsman isn't interested in killing people. He only wants to perfect his art.

Helen DeWitt

#18. For nine more nights they trained, after an arduous day's march, Vaelin would try to turn a poet into a swordsman.

Anthony Ryan

#19. When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.

Matsuo Basho

#20. The world's best swordsman doesn't fear the second best; he fears the worst swordsman, because he can't predict what the idiot will do.

David Weber

#21. Scars on the back are a swordsman's shame.

Zoro

#22. Have you always been a swordsman?' I asked.
He parried my overhead cut. 'I've been many things.

Rick Riordan

#23. I am called a great swordsman because I invented a lethal style; but who is greater, the creator of a killing form - or the master of the classic form?"
"I'm very flattered that you would consider me a master but really - "
"Not a master. The master.

Matthew Woodring Stover

#24. [When you meet a swordsman/ meet him with a sword Do not offer a poem to anyone but a poet]

Dan Simmons

#25. Perhaps it's no coincidence that the word words is an anagram of sword. Well-used words cut through ambiguity and confusion like a sharp sword in the hands of an expert swordsman.

Anu Garg

#26. All right," Clara said. "We have our swordsman, so let's get moving. Brigan, could you attempt, at least, to make yourself presentable? I know this is a war, but the rest of us are trying to pretend it's a party.

Kristin Cashore

#27. You would do well to know, Marcus, that irritating a better swordsman than yourself is a good way to end up dead.

Raymond E. Feist

#28. The sword glitters not because the swordsman set out to make it glitter but because he is fighting for his life and therefore moving it very quickly.

C.S. Lewis

#29. The king, the priest, the rich man - who lives and who dies? Who will the swordsman obey? It's a riddle without an answer, or rather, too many answers.

George R R Martin

#30. There were a number of people who helped me get there, and the one I always mention is Michael Byrne, the great master swordsman and brilliant stunt double.

Ian McDiarmid