Top 100 The Sword Quotes
#1. If I don't wield the sword, I can't protect you. If I keep wielding the sword, I can't embrace you. -Ichigo Kurosaki
Tite Kubo
#2. This is the body's nurse; but since man's wit
Found the art of cookery, to delight his sense,
More bodies are consumed and kill'd with it
Than with the sword, famine, or pestilence.
John Davies Of Hereford
#3. Damianos," Touars said. "Princekiller."
It was the last thing he said. Damen
pulled the sword out. He took a step
back.
C.S. Pacat
#5. Always the answer - yes! Let me die so -
Under some rosy-golden sunset, saying
A good thing, for a good cause! By the sword,
The point of honor - by the hand of one
Worthy to be my foeman, let me fall -
Steel in my heart, and laughter on my lips!
Edmond Rostand
#6. When I grew a little older, and had suitors, I demanded from them rings from the bottom of the sea, or a sword from the depths of the desert, or a golden bough and a thick golden fleece, too, before I allowed even one kiss.
Catherynne M Valente
#7. You got no soul, Cap'n," he said. "When a stranger comes into the city under the thrall of the dragon and challenges it with a glittery sword, weeell, there's only one outcome, ain't there? It's probably destiny.
Terry Pratchett
#8. I don't do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn't have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable.
Orlando Bloom
#9. Success is like a lightning bolt. It'll strike you when you least expect it, and you just have to keep the momentum going. You have to strike when the iron is hot. So for me, I just kept striking and striking to polish out the sword that I was making.
Michelle Phan
#10. The men in the room suddenly realized that they did not want to know her better. She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.
And she held her sword, and she smiled like a knife.
Terry Pratchett
#11. Every time you strip my sword, I owe you a kiss. How's that sound?" I bit my lip to keep from giggling.
"That sounds really dirty."
Patch waggled his brows. "Look whose mind just rolled into the gutter.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#12. Unless was a sword held carefully by the blade. A single slip and all the delicate designs could fall apart in a clatter of severed fingers.
Sean DeLauder
#13. She wove through the crowd, jabbing her sword into dragon-scale feet at every opportunity, and yelling, "RUN! RUN AWAY!" to sow confusion.
Rick Riordan
#14. When a mortal man breaks a people, it is always blamed on the gods.
S.M. White
#15. I had some interesting costumes ... the one that I remember right offhand is Zorro when I was a lot younger. I was a big time Zorro fan. My mom helped me make it, and I remember having a big issue with the fact that she wouldn't let me carry around a real metal sword; it just had to be plastic.
Sam Hunt
#18. Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth. I have not come to bring peace, but the sword. MATTHEW 10:34
Reza Aslan
#19. He had an invisible sword. Really?
He walked through the lobby, got into a full elevator, and no one stared. He passed a cleaning lady in the hallway outside his room, and all she said was,"Hello there."
He had an invisible sword. Really.
Nils Johnson-Shelton
#20. The continually moving mind is philosophically symbolized by the avatar Fudo Myo-o, the Wisdom King, often depicted holding a sword in one hand for cutting through ignorance, and a rope in the other for tying up passions.
Yagyu Munenori
#21. We think that we know a man or a woman, when so much of what we know is actually that man's or that woman's situation, his or her place on the board of life. Move the pawn to the last row and see her rise in armor, sword in hand.
Gene Wolfe
#22. Without the pen of Paine, the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain.
John Adams
#23. The world's most bada** Viking yard gnome is on the counter by the cash register using a dinner plates as a shield and a steak knife as a sword
Libba Bray
#24. Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit; occidentis telum est.
A sword is never a killer; it is a tool in the killers hand.
Maggie Stiefvater
#25. And Samuel said, "As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women." And Samuel hacked Agag to pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.
Anonymous
#26. What happens to you, Uhtred, is what you make happen. You will grow, you will learn the sword, you will learn the way of the shield wall, you will learn the oar, you will give honor to the gods, and then you will use what you have learned to make your life good or bad.
Bernard Cornwell
#27. From a swift canter the powerful legs of Melynlas stretched to a gallop. The stallion's muscles heaved beneath him and Taran, sword raised, plunged into the sea of men. His head spun and he gasped as if drowning. He realized he was terrified.
Lloyd Alexander
#28. Where is your Sword? Is it sharp? Is it dusty? Go and get it, and make it sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing down to the bone and marrow, even to the joints! We are WARRIORS in mortal, spiritual battle! RROOAAARRR!!!!
Margaret Aranda
#29. It's hard to stop a war once it starts. Once the sword is drawn, blood's going to be spilled. This doesn't have anything to do with theory or logic, or even my ego. It's just a rule, pure and simple.
Haruki Murakami
#30. Hone your writing skills as if they were your finest weapons of war. For in the literary arena, your pen will truly be your sword.
Max Hawthorne
#31. What is in the heart rolls off the tongue, the weight of your words can be as sharp as a sword or as light as a feather." 03/19/2016
Suzanne Pavlick
#32. When dragons attack, the only thing you should seek to stand behind is your own sword.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#33. Stuckley drew back his sword with evident satisfaction. "She really is your Achilles' heel, isn't she Furey?"
"No." Lorcan said, preparing his own attack. "Not my Achilles' heel.The love of my life. And I'll do whatever it takes to protect her.
Justin Somper
#34. A harp can be as dangerous as a sword, in the right hands.
Anonymous
#35. We definitely don't exist just for the sake of welcoming death someday; I believe we live for the sake of living on." - Kazuto Kirigaya "Kirito" (Sword Art Online)
Reki Kawahara
#36. They love truth flourishing, who do not love it when it is confuting. They dare handle and look on the sword with delight when in a rich scabbard, who would run away to see it drawn.
William Gurnall
#37. When you think she deserves someone better? When you can't imagine being the one who actually gets to keep her? That's how you know you're the one who deserves her. Not some asshole in a puffy shirt carrying a sword.
Tessa Bailey
#38. The sword of the Spirit - the Bible - is the weapon God has provided for us to use in this battle between truth and deception. Make it a priority to wield that sword skillfully.
Billy Graham
#39. There's a scabbard for every dagger,' the madam says in Turkish as the whores laugh.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#40. It is a higher glory ... to stay war itself with a word, than to slay men with the sword, and to procure or maintain peace by peace, not by war.
Augustine Of Hippo
#41. 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
#42. The more you try to pin a word down, the more you realize that it has its own cape, sword and little hat.
Roy Blount Jr.
#43. Prince Ahmad crouched over the headless body, the scout at his side. "you say a mere priest bested you?"
"He weilded his sword like a master. I never saw such a display."
The prince mocked the soldier. "Then let us pray we don't meet the Pope.
Galen Watson
#44. Laughing, Bracken threw his sword aside and extended a hand towards the wizard. "To me," he said ... The unicorn horn lept from the wizard's hand and streaked to Bracken, who caught it effortlessly. In his grasp the horn immediately transformed into a sword ...
Brandon Mull
#45. [...]They offended Hood,' he stated flatly.
'And How they did that?' Silk enquired.
'They demanded a tithe upon the temple. I demonstrated Hood's tithe.'
'And who are you to judge?' Smokey demanded. The lad's Dark, almost blue-black eyes edged aside to Smokey. 'I am Hood's Sword.
Ian C. Esslemont
#46. This was a chance for Rhy to shine, not only as a jewel, but as a sword. He had always been a symbol of wealth. He wanted to be a symbol of power. Magic was power, of course, but it wasn't the only kind. Rhy told himself he could still be strong without it.
Victoria Schwab
#47. The glory of the old Irish nation, which in our hour will grow young and strong again. Should we fail, the country will not be worth more than it is now. The sword of famine is less sparing than the bayonet of the soldier.
Thomas Francis Meagher
#48. Then he took the sword in both hands and raised it - and Gawain's posture took on an unmistakable grandeur.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#49. Annabeth laced her fingers through his. In the light of his bronze sword, her face was beautiful.
'We're together,' she reminded him. 'We'll get through this.
Rick Riordan
#50. When he said to give him the sword, I don't think he meant for you to stick it in his guts.
Kevin Hearne
#51. The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.
Marty Feldman
#52. The singers make much of kings who valiantly die in battle, but your life is worth more than a sword. To me at least, who gave it to you.
George R R Martin
#53. Thinking of her, he felt a sudden longing inside him. She had the face of a hawk, slim and cruel, with dark hair and eyes. Teresa was beautiful as a fine sword was beautiful; slim and hard.
Bernard Cornwell
#54. My anger spiked. I should have stabbed the Komizar again. Carved him up like a holiday goose, then brought his head back skewered on a sword and showed it to the crowds as proof that I had no love for the tyrant.
Mary E. Pearson
#55. War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#56. Jace was very pale, with hectic spots like fever on his cheekbones. But it was Valentine. I saw him. In fact, he had the Sword with him when he came down to the cells and taunted me through the bars. It was like a bad movie, except he didn't actually twirl his mustache.
Cassandra Clare
#57. Coming in Fall 2015 Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, Book One The Sword of Summer
Rick Riordan
#58. There was an intruder on a forbidden part of the island, and the security system was compromised. Another image of Archer's sword slicing through a ghoul came to mind. Yeah, compromised was one word for it.
Rachel Hawkins
#59. The God who had thrust him through in the darkness with probings of dread and shame was the same God who now held out the sword and shield.
Elizabeth Goudge
#60. I hope that you have nothing against malice, my good engineer. In my eyes it is the brightest sword that reason has against the powers of darkness and ugliness. Malice, sir, is the spirit of criticism, and criticism marks the origin of progress and enlightenment.
Thomas Mann
#61. Affliction caused by the tongue is worse than that caused by the strike of the blade of a sword.
Anonymous
#62. I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.
Richard M. Nixon
#63. Unpredictable,"
he swung and the carnatur dodged
"vicious,"
he ducked when it tried to knock him from his perch
"no account plants,"
his sword glanced of the green bulb and the plant hissed
"that have no purpose on this earth but to ruin my day.
Nicole Sager
#64. But the observers were even more surprised by her thigh boots, black breeches, and the red leather corset she wore over a white shirt. It was a daring outfit, to say the least... She also wore a sword and rode her horse like a man. It was scandalous...
Page 37 of ARC
Pierre Pevel
#65. Upon his tomb the Elvenking then laid Orcrist, the elvish sword that had been taken from Thorin in captivity. It is said in songs that it gleamed ever in the dark if foes approached, and the fortress of the dwarves could not be taken by surprise.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#66. The Sword fled, and would have vanished utterly if the Pope had not granted them refuge in the ranks of the Teutonic Knights.
Neal Stephenson
#67. If the clouds split open and an archangel descended onto the street in all of his heavenly glory and tried to make Rogan see reason, he would fail miserably and have to pack up his flaming sword and go back to Heaven in shame.
Ilona Andrews
#68. He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword. (Unless the other guy has a gun!)
Quentin R. Bufogle
#70. He on his way." "Maybe he'll bring a sword." "Maybe he'll bring a tank." I shook my head. "I hate being rescued." "Then why aren't we trying to get to the car?" "Because I hate being eaten even more.
Seanan McGuire
#71. Science cannot close the fist of reason around the miracle of consciousness any more than I can turn my sword into a light saber.
Kevin Hearne
#72. Viruses have no morality, no sense of good and evil, the deserving or the undeserving ... AIDS is not the swift sword with which the Lord punishes the evil practitioners of male homosexuality and intravenous drug use. It is simply an opportunistic virus that does what it has to do to stay alive.
Chris Crutcher
#73. Distraught I seize mine arms ... And with my comrades hasten to the hold: frenzy and anger urge my headlong will, and death methinks how comely, sword in hand!
Virgil
#74. I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
Zora Neale Hurston
#76. Do you love me, Rain?"
"More than I knew it was possible to love. All the stars will fall from the heavens before I ever stop.
C.L. Wilson
#77. Be quiet and work hard
Be humble and carry a big sword
In the end
Your reward will reflect your sword.
-Nate Spears
Nate Spears
#78. a dragon, a bear, a wolf, and two snakes entwined around a sword. The crest
Rick Riordan
#79. I suppose I shoulde get used to being alone too.
Not in the world, but in here. In my heart.
Victoria Aveyard
#80. Agatha of Woods Beyond."
He laid down the sword.
"Will you be my princess for the Ball?
Soman Chainani
#81. The pen is truly mightier than the sword. Unless you're holding a pen and the other guy's holding a sword.
Dave Besseling
#82. I sighed and put Slayer between the front seats. "Stay here. Guard the car."
Saiman shut the door. "Is the sword sentient?"
"No. But I like to pretend it is.
Ilona Andrews
#84. The sun is simple. A sword is simple. A storm is simple. Behind everything simple is a huge tail of complicated.
Terry Pratchett
#85. I think if I could be a man in any time period, I would be a pirate. You know, go climbing in the rigging, sword fighting. I'd like to do that.
Sarah Snook
#86. I don't do magic. I turn your attention back to Friday night and the big-ass sword I was carrying. My job is to run and swing.
Danielle Monsch
#87. I WALKED INTO my house to see the knight and the wizard sitting in my kitchen, drinking coffee. If you added in Julie's thieving skills and my sword, we almost had an adventuring party. "It's too bad we're missing a cleric," I said.
Ilona Andrews
#88. You spoke the truth, Percy Jackson. You are nothing like ... like Hercules. I am honored that you carry this sword.
Rick Riordan
#89. A man who wears a sword knows to hold the love of his wife and family dear, for at any time he may not see another day of it.
Aleksandra Layland
#92. I will get your some clothes, a sword, and your very own assassin to join you on your quest."
"Ooh, just what I've always wanted. A man whose job title had the word ass in it not once, but two times.
Quinn Loftis
#93. That bit where that lad sprang backwards right across the room with them axes in his hands was impressive, though."
"Yeah."
"You didn't ought to have stuck your sword out like that, I thought."
"He's learned an important lesson."
"It won't do him much good now where he's gone.
Terry Pratchett
#94. May I ask what happened to your last revolver?' 'It turned into a sword.' 'Of course it did.' 'And then the ghouls probably stole it.' Cabal smiled with an expression so close to fondness that it made Horst stare. 'The naughty rapscallions.
Jonathan L. Howard
#95. Who said that?" asked Sir Grummore.
"But the sword said it, like I tell you."
"Talkative weapon," remarked Sir Grummore skeptically.
T.H. White
#96. I guess I should have said that you're a tragic loss because your brains were yours and yours alone. You were the one who could pull the sword out of the stone. And you gave it all up.
Elizabeth Knox
#97. My gosh, if you're going away, we got a million things to talk about! All the things we would've talked about next month, the month after! Praying mantises, zeppelins, acrobats, sword swallowers!
Ray Bradbury
#98. And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#99. Unhappy it is, though, to reflect that a brother's sword has been sheathed in a brother's breast and that the once-happy plains of America are either to be drenched with blood or inhabited by slaves. Sad alternative! But can a virtuous man hesitate in his choice?
George Washington
#100. Sword fighting is just as fun as it looks on the screen.
Ben Barnes
