The Sword Quotes

#1. Faith has no use for the sword, because those who ride with the sword to defend their faith ride with the devil by their side.

Stephen R. Harrison

#2. The sword is very handsome. I am too old and infirm, as you see, to ever use a sword again, but I am glad that my old mother state has not entirely forgotten me.

George Rogers Clark

#3. I was right." She dropped the sword and grabbed Helen in a hug. Then she started jumping up and down, making Helen jump with her. "You're not dead! This is ... You have no idea how happy I am I didn't just kill you!" she squealed.

Josephine Angelini

#4. The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.

Marcus Garvey

#5. I concentrated hard and snapped my fingers. "You don't see the sword," I told the girl. "It's just a ballpoint pen." She blinked. "Um ... no. It's a sword, weirdo.

Rick Riordan

#6. Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

#7. As 'twas in the times of old 'tis now, The sword is the sceptre, and all must bow.

Friedrich Schiller

#8. Our liberty will not be secured at the sword's point ... We must secure it by making ourselves worthy of it. And when the people reaches that height, God will provide a weapon, the idols will be shattered, tyranny will crumble like a house of cards, and liberty will shine out like the first dawn.

Jose Rizal

#9. It is every man's right to choose when to Sheathe the Sword.
Ingtar Shinowa

Robert Jordan

#10. Nothing is unobtainable to the sword.

Lord Dunsany

#11. Wherever the sword of rebellion is drawn to protect the rights of man, I am a rebel. Wherever the sword of rebellion is drawn to give man liberty, to clothe him in all his just rights, I am on the side of that rebellion.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#12. The new book is a result of my well-documented ... absorption in Samurai movie culture. It's called 'The 47th Samurai: A Bob Lee Swagger novel,' and it takes Bob to Japan in search of the sword his father recovered on Iwo that has gone missing under extremely violent circumstances.

Stephen Hunter

#13. I am leaving, but I am living. I will not be gone from you entirely, Will. When you fight now, I will be still by you. When you walk in the world, I will be the light at your side, the ground steady under your feet, the force that drives the sword in your hand.

Cassandra Clare

#14. Freedom cannot be won by the sword, or held by the ballot. It exists only in the minds of men.

Paul Guildea

#15. By the sword you did your work, and by the sword you die.

Aeschylus

#16. I am a warrior in the time of women warriors; the longing for justice is the sword I carry.

Sonia Johnson

#17. In sum, it is not good to let the hand or the sword become fixed or frozen.87 A fixed hand is a dead hand; a hand that does not become fixed is alive. It is necessary to master this well.

Miyamoto Musashi

#18. The marvel of our Bible never shows more marvellous than at such times, when you see it in deed and in truth the Sword of the Spirit, and it cuts.

Amy Carmichael

#19. He could get back to the world," Thalia supplied, "and bring the sword to Kronos." "Who would use it to raise his brothers from Tartarus," I guessed. "And we'd be in big trouble.

Rick Riordan

#20. You are a most effective killer, Michel. Is it true you wept like a child when they killed your sister? That you cried out in agony as if the sword had pierced your own heart? Such compassion. Does your handiwork not bring you to tears as well?

P.A. Minyard

#21. Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of the might within the land, bearers of a spark from the sacred fire.

Joseph Conrad

#22. I find by my calculations, which are according to revealed inspiration, that the sword of death is now approaching us, in the shape of pestilence, war more horrible than has been known in three lifetimes, and famine.

Nostradamus

#23. When you really believe that using sword can kill people,
that's when you will be subject to the law of the sword,
those who use the sword will die by the sword.

Toba Beta

#24. The power needs truth to work. Truth is reality, the laws of nature. They're inseparable. That relationship is represented by the word woven into the hilt. That makes this sword meant to serve more than just the power. It is also meant to serve the truth. This is the Sword of Truth.

Terry Goodkind

#25. Power, money, lusts of the flesh and any other desire which takes a man, a family, a village or a nation from peace or freedom and places it under the sword is tyranny and the enemy of all.

Jaime Buckley

#26. The pen may indeed be mightier than the sword, but the wordsmith would do well to welcome the blacksmith back into the fold, so that artisan craftsmanship the world over may fend off the ravages of industrialised homogeneity and bland monoculture.

Alex Morritt

#27. When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

Alexander Hamilton

#28. All bleed who fight with the sword. All confront, with greater or lesser difficulty, the worship of their own flesh. The swordmaiden faces particular obstacles in this matter: she will have seen, in the temples and elsewhere, many images of unscarred women.

Sofia Samatar

#29. Some say that "the pen is mightier than the sword." I say "the keyboard is your machine gun.

Sean Donovan

#30. Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier than death itself. The disease is so messy, so devastating, so pervasive. It robs you of everything you hold dear.

Larry Kramer

#31. We should begin the day with the Bible, and as it comes to a close let the Word speak its wisdom to our souls. Let it be the Staff of Life upon which our spirit is nourished. Let it be the Sword of the Spirit which cuts away the evil of our lives and fashions us in His image and likeness.

Billy Graham

#32. Hence it is evident that if men are pious, good and orderly, they will bear the sword for the protection of the innocent, according to the will of God, and for a terror to evil-doers, according as God has appointed and ordained.

Balthasar Hubmaier

#33. The blood of the First Men still flows in the veins of the Starks, and we hold to the belief that the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.

George R R Martin

#34. Meanwhile, the sword
began to wilt into gory icicles,
to slather and thaw. It was a wonderful thing,
the way it all melted as ice melts
when the Father eases the fetters off the frost
and unravels the water-ropes. He who wields power
over time and tide: He is the true Lord.

Seamus Heaney

#35. Shields were generally made of wood, covered with leather, or some similar substance. To secure them, in some sort, from being cut through by the sword, they were surrounded with a hoop of metal.

Thomas Bulfinch

#36. The sword that has been forged against us - is already blunted;

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#37. I remember thinking of the passage in The Sword in the Stone where a falconer took a goshawk back onto his own fist, 'reassuming him like a lame man putting on his accustomed wooden leg, after it had been lost'.

Helen Macdonald

#38. Those who do not fear the sword they wield have no right to wield a sword at all.
~Shuhei Hisagi

Tite Kubo

#39. The warrior learns of the spiritual realm by dwelling on the cutting edge of the sword, standing at the edge of the fire pit, venturing right up to the edge of starvation if necessary. Vibrant and intense living is the warrior's form of worship.

Stephen K. Hayes

#40. Andy had to accept that the sword was missing. He thought back to where they had been, trying desperately to determine where he might have lost it. "Did you have it after we ate lunch?" Alden questioned at last. "Could it have fallen out of your backpack when you put it down?

L.R.W. Lee

#41. the board consumes more than the sword.

Anonymous

#42. Rocking back and forth, she clutched the sword like it was the only thing she had ever loved, and let the blood spill down instead of tears.

Cassandra Clare

#43. Must I at length the Sword of Justice draw?
Oh curst Effects of necessary Law!
How ill my Fear they by my Mercy scan,
Beware the Fury of a Patient Man.

John Dryden

#44. Contact with the sword causes the same defilement whether it be through the hilt or the point.

Simone Weil

#45. You will never develop courage if you don't stand in the middle of the battle afraid and pick up the sword anyways, to defend what is right. You might feel like you are outnumbered, but heroes always are.

Shannon L. Alder

#46. Nobility on earth may be earned by the sword, but nobility of the soul must be sought in stony ways and through hard endeavor. I have to tell you to rejoice that you have been chosen.

Dorothy Dunnett

#47. Come on, admit it, Pooky Bear," I said to the sword. "You love your new look. All the other swords will be jealous.

Susan Ee

#48. From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king ...
Reforge the sword.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#49. Yeah, you know, I like to throw myself on the sword so that others may feel better about themselves. I tell the stories that you all want to forget, but when you remember it, it hopefully makes you laugh.

Paul Feig

#50. 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

#51. Making a film is very hard work, and you live or die by the sword just a little bit every time you do it, but I wouldn't chuck it in.

Matthew Goode

#52. So we strap on weapons that work - weapons divinely authorized for our success in spiritual warfare: the belt of truth, the breastplate of righteousness, the shoes of peace. Then we take up the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation, as well as the sword - the very Word of God. But

Priscilla Shirer

#53. The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.

Aeschylus

#54. Is it not heavenly irony that God pressed the headman's sword of morals into the hands of the newspaper writers? Perhaps the great God Pan thought they would be the fittest to handle the sword, since they are so intimately associated with mental prostitution.

Various

#55. If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.

Andrew Jackson

#56. And when his wings enfold you yield to him,
Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

Kahlil Gibran

#57. Symbols

A storm-beaten old watch-tower,
A blind hermit rings the hour.

All-destroying sword-blade still
Carried by the wandering fool.

Gold-sewn silk on the sword-blade,
Beauty and fool together laid.

W.B.Yeats

#58. He who does not fear the sword he holds is not worthy of holding a sword.
-Hisagi Shuuhei

Tite Kubo

#59. Wind-voice looked in amazement at the sword in his claws. "I - I'll keep it safe," he muttered to Winger. "For the hero, when he comes ... "
Winger was smiling a light, dreamy smile that radiated all over his thin face. "The hero is here, Wind-voice," he said, awed. "You're the hero.

Nancy Yi Fan

#60. Pen is mightier than the sword, but not so much as the eyes reading what it scripts

Ritesh Kumar

#61. He holds the sword!' shouted Merlin. 'And that has not changed. Whoever would be king must first take the sword from Arthur's hand. For I tell you truly, none among you will be king without it!

Stephen R. Lawhead

#62. Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

John F. Kennedy

#63. Swords could also be used for freeing. You could've cut through the chain around the bird's foot and set it free. Swords could be used for killing. But it needn't be the bird. Wouldn't the more merciful choice have been to use the sword against the oppressor?

Roshani Chokshi

#64. Chauncey seethed at the outrageous insult. "And your father?" he demanded, extending the sword. He didn't yet know all his vassals, but he was learning. He would brand the family name of this boy to memory.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#65. Shed not recklessly the blood of another with thy sword,
Lest the Sword on High falls upon thy neck.

Guru Gobind Singh

#66. There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#67. Well, well. The new head of the People's Atlanta office had come to see me personally. I'd curtsy but I was too tired to get off my donkey and the sword on my back would get in the way.

Ilona Andrews

#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. The Sword the burning decieved rising the science fiction the betrayed the spy the souls

Moira Young

#70. Sam handed back the sword. "When I try to swat a bug, it always flies away. All I do is slap my arm. It stings." That made Jon laugh.

George R R Martin

#71. The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.

Julia Ward Howe

#72. If the pen is mightier than the sword, then what is the laptop? A light saber or a life saver?

K.S. Collier

#73. The curve is more powerful than the sword.

Mae West

#74. In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.

Vince McMahon

#75. Put it away or use it."
I chuckled at Butch's threat. Flipping the sword in the air, I caught it with ease.
"Show off," he muttered swabbing at the wood around my chair.

Freedom Matthews

#76. The Pin is mightier than the sword

Fred Reinfeld

#77. - because just by hating it's possible to be purified from love, just with the sword, with the fire..

Daphne Du Maurier

#78. In my left hand the Book, in my right hand the Sword, and at my feet the World.

Antoine Rouaud

#79. Let no one refer to the sword of Napoleon I as the instrument of progress and civilization!

Elie Ducommun

#80. The sources and research I use for my inspiration aren't your typical sci-fi subjects, but it's really driven by obsession and personal anxiety more than trying to take up the sword and do what's right.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#81. Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.

Jasper Fforde

#82. He who waits for the sword to fall upon his neck will surely lose his head.

Stephen R. Donaldson

#83. However, he often feels challenged by those whom he teaches the sword. His disciples call him to combat.

Paulo Coelho

#84. You have tried the power of the sword. Now try throwing it away... (rise) to a privileged place where everyday acts took on a mythical meaning.

Deepak Chopra

#85. A true Seeker, one who can make a difference, must show himself to be a Seeker. The wizard doesn't point to someone and say, 'Here is the Sword of Truth, you will be the Seeker.' He doesn't really have a choice in the matter.

Terry Goodkind

#86. She refused to die like an animal locked in a cage. Like a girl with nothing to save her name. Better to die by the sword. Better to die at the mercy of the nightbeasts. To die in the night air. Free.

Renee Ahdieh

#87. Tired of these endless games,
Time to end the darkened day
To raise the sword
To kill the light
Because there is no reason left to fight ...

Oasis

#88. The sword of life is the truth of salvation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#89. 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

#90. If the sword of oppression be permitted to lop off one limb without opposition, reiterated strokes will soon dismember the whole body.

Alexander Hamilton

#91. wire-wound hilt greeted his fingers. The sword lay on the ground beside him.

Terry Goodkind

#92. What is our vision on this earth - war to the end of all generations and life by the sword?

Moshe Sharett

#93. There is no shame in losing to the sword of the Prince. There is only shame in choosing not to follow Him.

Chuck Black

#94. He'll use the sword to set in motion a chain of events to hasten Doomsday.

Rick Riordan

#95. 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

#96. 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

#97. I am the sword in the darkness.

George R R Martin

#98. 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

#99. Mightier than the sword, the pen may be; but the tongue is mightiest of all.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#100. As Semminex held onto the sword's handle, he watched the jewel in the centerpiece begin to glow and hum even louder than before. Nervous, he tried to pull his hand away, but he couldn't release his grip. His hand fused to the handle as energy pulsated from the sword into his hand and up his arm.

George Sirois