Scabbard Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

“He slipped the baldric over his head, laying the leather across his shoulder and the scabbard at his hip. Knowing the weapon a little…

— Terry Goodkind

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“A single gleaming sword sat in the middle on a raised portion of the red velvet. Magda noticed an ornate gold and silver scabbard…

— Terry Goodkind

“Nothing made you look like more of a dick than standing there trying to find the end of your scabbard with the tip of…

— Lev Grossman

Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants.

— Elizabeth Montagu

“diplomacy was nothing more than the gilding on the scabbard of a hidden blade.”

— Marc Turner

“Brazen it out! Throw away the scabbard! Grit your teeth, buckle down, and die with your boots on! Or in other words, be determined…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

And a wandering beauty is a blade out of its scabbard.You know how dangerous, gentlemen of threescore?May you know it yet ten more.

— John Crowe Ransom

“I do not need a scabbard to sheathe my mind.”

— Fuyumi Ono

“. . . how could I protect myself? I had the Viking's scabbard, but not the sword; I had the Buddhist's robe, but not the faith.”

— Andrew Davidson

“You're going to keep making these mistakes as long as you keep carrying your brain in the same scabbard with your sword, Lelldorin.”

— David Eddings

Fate, Destiny, Circumstance, Sit before me, Laughing, Mocking, Pointing, Reveling in my pain, And hers. Staring into their eyes, Smiling, I pull the Katana,…

— Eric Nickel