Quotes About Swordplay

This is the bravo's dance, the water dance, swift and sudden. All men are made of water, do you know this? When you pierce them, the water leaks out and they die.

You don't know what it is to live and laugh and love and run a man through! You've never tasted salty air on your tongue or waved heartily at a mermaid!

You seem a decent fellow," Inigo said. "I hate to kill you." You seem a decent fellow," answered the man in black. "I hate to die.

I have done martial arts my whole life, so it comes easily, but I have never done proper sword fighting.

I couldn't pick up a sword and go fight anyone, let me put it that way. It's choreography and it's acting. The best sword fights you see look amazing, but it's the acting that sells it more than anything.

I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.

I like 'The Lord of The Rings' and ninja swords.

In high school, I was so obsessed with the movie that I started an actual 'Highlander' club with my two best friends, Mike Levy and David Sirota. What began as a few geeks hitting each other with swords we made in woodshop soon became a school-wide game with 20 people playing. It became so disruptive that the administration had to shut it down.

Piper was maybe the most impressive. She fenced with the giantess Periboia, sword against sword. Despite the fact that her opponent was five times larger, Piper seemed to be holding her own. The goddess Aphrodite floated around them on a small white cloud, strewing rose petals in the giantess's eyes and calling encouragement to Piper. 'Lovely, my dear. Yes, good. Hit her again!

men of their generation, quick to see a slight, quick to draw their swords. But a dawn affair of honor was

He will apologize, or I'll give him a lesson in swordplay he will not like at all.

Tor said in a strangled voice, He will apologize, or I'll give HIM a lesson in swordplay he will not like at all.

If you break this door you will find me dead on the threshold. And be easy, madame, you shall be revenged, said Bussy.

I am a fan of wuxia.

parrying like a man who had the greatest respect for his own epidermis.

Not before I have killed you, poltroon! cried d'Artagnan, making the best face possible, and

ALLONGE  (ALLO'NGE)   n.s.[allonge, Fr.]A pass or thrust with a rapier, so called from the lengthening of the space taken up by the fencer.

Fafhrd, his back to a great oak, had his broadsword out and was holding off two of Rannarsh's henchmen, who were attacking with their shorter weapons. It was a tight spot and the Northerner realized it. He knew that ancient sagas told of heroes who could best four or more men at swordplay. He also knew that such sagas were lies, providing that the hero's opponents were reasonably competent.

I love it when people come up to me and they say a line. Like, you know, 'My name is Indigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.'

He hesitated a moment, shifted the load to his left arm and mimed a sword stroke in the air. Crowley looked over his shoulder at the serving boy with some concern. "Planning on beheading me, are you?" he asked. Rafe smiled at him. "No sir, Ranger. Just getting the right side, like. Just shift yourself over while I put these down, before I forget which side is which, now." Crowley

I like swordwork. It's like riding, that way - it forces concentration, and thus opens up the world.

The Princess Bride is one of my favorite movies, of all time.

Maybe someone would write a play just for me, one where a real woman could fight with her sword, and had many fine adventures and changes of costume.

Every man lives at swordspoint, Ferris intoned.