Sword Quotes
565 quotes by 343 authors
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There's nothing militant about Jesus. I don't read anything like that in any of the gospels. Peter drew his sword and cut off the servant's…
— Joseph Campbell
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...if fifty bands of men surrounded us/ and every sword sang for your blood,/ you could make off still with their cows and sheep.
— Homer
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Elend: "Each moment you fight is a gift to those in this cavern. Each second we fight is a second longer that thousands of people…
— Brandon Sanderson
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It is difficult to realize the true Way just through sword-fencing. Know the smallest things and the biggest things, the shallowest things and the deepest…
— Miyamoto Musashi
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Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Seek for the Sword that was broken In Imladris it dwells; There shall be counsels taken Stronger than Morgul-spells. There shall be shown a token…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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The curve is more powerful than the sword.
— Mae West
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I'm so disappointed, Ichigo, so very disappointed. Sadly, your sword exhibits only fear. When you counter, it's because you fear being killed. When you attack,…
— Tite Kubo
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The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for…
— William Blake
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I suppose every one must have reflected how primeval and how poetical are the things that one carries in one's pocket; the pocket-knife, for instance,…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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You haven't yet opened your heart fully, to life, to each moment. The peaceful warrior's way is not about invulnerability, but absolute vulnerability--to the world,…
— Dan Millman
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When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.
— Neal Stephenson
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The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.
— Marcus Garvey
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I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
— Alexandre Dumas
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You just put that sword away, sir, please," said the voice of Lance-Constable Vimes. "You will not shoot me, you young idiot. That would be…
— Terry Pratchett
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Virginia Woolf wrote, "Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword." On one side of that sword, she said,…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Then I saw it, and it just grabbed me. That moment, that breath just before destiny, between innocence and power. He'll pull the sword free.…
— Nora Roberts
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My friendship you shall have, leanred Man," piped Reepicheep. "And any Dwarf--or Giant---in the army who does not give you good language shall have my…
— C.S. Lewis
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New lesson, class. Most monsters will vaporize when sliced with a celestial bronze sword. This change is perfectly normal, and will happen to you right…
— Rick Riordan
Who Wrote These Sword Quotes
343 authors contributed a total of 565 Sword Quotes, led by these top contributors: