Sword Quotes

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Richard Whately

Mary Harris Jones

F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead

Amy Lowell

Alexander Cockburn

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

John Dryden

The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin.

Alexander Cockburn

IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather.
THEY'RE NOT
MEANT
TO BE SAFE.

Terry Pratchett

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

Beneath the rule of men entirely great
The pen is mightier than the sword.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

All books are either dreams or swords,
You can cut, or you can drug, with words.

Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars, its feet for the swords; it continueth, though an army lay waste the pasture; it comforteth when there are no medicines; it hath the relish of manna; and by it do men live in the desert.

I am going to my Fathers, and tho' with great difficulty I am got hither, yet now I do not repent me of all the trouble I have been at to arrive where I am. My sword, I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it. My marks and scars I carry with me, to be a witness for me, that I have fought his battles, who will now be my rewarder.

Mr Valiant-for-Truth

I have always maintained that no nation can ever be worthy of its existence that cannot take its women along with the men. No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men. 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

Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.

Margaret Halsey

The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords.

F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead

It is said the warrior's is the twofold Way of pen and sword, and he should have a taste for both Ways. Even if a man has no natural ability he can be a warrior by sticking assiduously to both divisions of the Way. Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.

Miyamoto Musashi

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.

Mary Harris Jones

Oh that my Pow'r to Saving were confin'd:
Why am I forc'd, like Heav'n, against my mind,
To make Examples of another Kind?
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.

Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil, is rightwise King born of all England.

Weak arguments are often thrust before my path; but although they are most unsubstantial, it is not easy to destroy them. There is not a more difficult feat known than to cut through a cushion with a sword.

Richard Whately

The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.

Charles de Gaulle

For the sword outwears its sheath,
And the soul wears out the breast,
And the heart must pause to breathe,
And love itself have rest.

Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls;
Conscience is but a work that cowards use,
Devised at first to keep the strong in awe:
Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law!

William Shakespeare

And now I have finished a work that neither the wrath of love, nor fire, nor the sword, nor devouring age shall be able to destroy.

I brought myself down. I gave them 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.

Never desire war but pray to Allah for peace and security. And when you are (forced) to fight the enemy, fight with steadfastness and know that Paradise is under the shadow of swords.

Emeth came walking forward into the open strip of grass between the bonfire and the Stable. His eyes were shining, his face was solemn, his hand was on his sword-hilt, and he carried his head high. Jill felt like crying when she looked at his face. And Jewel whispered in the King's ear, "By the Lion's Mane, I almost love this young warrior, Calormene though he be. He is worthy of a better god than Tash.

And sheath'd their swords for lack of argument.

William Shakespeare

Allah's Apostle said, "Know that Paradise is under the shades of swords."

Cervantes on his galley sets the sword back in the sheath (Don John of Austria rides homeward with a wreath). And he sees across a weary land a straggling road in Spain, Up which a lean and foolish knight forever rides in vain.

G. K. Chesterton