Best Swords Lines
173 Swords quotes by 129 unique authors
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Hadrian drew two swords from his sides in a single elegant motion. He flipped one around letting it spin against his palm once. “Need to…
— Michael J. Sullivan
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Stealing swords,” Royce muttered mostly to himself. “Okay, let’s take a look at this tower. The sooner I see it, the sooner I can start…
— Michael J. Sullivan
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You little fool. Tears are not a woman's only weapon. You've got another one between your legs, and you'd best learn to use it. You'll…
— George R. R. Martin
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Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water.
— George R. R. Martin
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Let this be the hour when we draw swords together. Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn. Forth, Eorlingas!
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I sing your restless longing for the statue, your fear of the feelings that await you in the street. I sing the small sea siren…
— Federico Garcia Lorca
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Some battles are won with swords and spears, others with quills and ravens.
— George R. R. Martin
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Luneta and her parents started and whirled around, to see Terence standing just inside Luneta's door. "Deuce it, Terence!" Luneta's father expostulated. "You'll kill someone…
— Gerald Morris
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My armor is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Swords can’t solve every problem.
— Rick Riordan
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Why does the typical adventuring group consist of a wizard, a warrior, and a rogue, anyway? It should really be a wizard, a warrior, and…
— Robin Sloan
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This book is entirely dedicated to my wife, Robin Sullivan. Some have asked how it is I write such strong women without resorting to putting…
— Michael J. Sullivan
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I love you," he said, his voice almost musical with happiness. She shot him a scowl. "Isn't saying that a bit dangerous considering these aren't…
— C.C. Hunter
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The gods made the earth for all men t' share. Only when the kings come with their crowns and steel swords, they claimed it was…
— George R. R. Martin
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What doesn't kill us sharpens us. Hardens us. Schools us. You're beating plowshares into swords, Vosch. You are remaking us. We are the clay, and…
— Rick Yancey
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Hazael rose from his knees. It had to take extraordinary effort, yet somehow he managed a version of his lazy smile when he said, "You…
— Laini Taylor
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The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I'll wager I would have screwed things up regardless. But. . .can you imagine those poor bastards grappling their prey, leaping over the rails, swords…
— Scott Lynch
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It is precisely that requirement of shared worship that has been the principal source of suffering for individual man and the human race since the…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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For me, any fiction of nobles and swords necessarily has to be a story of corruption, injustice and savagely violent conflict - because any other…
— Richard K. Morgan
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What do I want in a good fantasy book? Court politics and social interactions based around houses and cities. Powerful women and devious men. Drama…
— Tansy Rayner Roberts
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The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men.
— James Harrington
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Now when the two armies met, many and fierce were the combats waged between them, and blows were given and received, and swords flashed and…
— Ferdowsi
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The Swords were still interesting but by then a cast of characters had started to appear and go on from book to book, and other…
— Fred Saberhagen
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God made them as stubble to our swords.
— Oliver Cromwell
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