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Quotes About Sword

Then holding the star aloft and the bright sword advanced, Frodo, hobbit of the Shire, walked steadily down to meet the eyes.
~ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
Sometimes silence can kill that a sword cannot
~ Mohammed Mushtaq GK
O cowardly amd tyrannous race of monks, persecutors of the bard, and the gleemen, haters of life and joy! O race that does not draw the sword and tell the truth! O race that melts the bones of the people with cowardice and with deceit! ("The Crucifixion Of The Outcast")
~ William Butler Yeats
My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!
~ William Goldman
We would all pass for such as have the true faith and not the false. But, be not your own judges; appeal to the Spirit of God, and let him, with the sword of his word, come and decide the controversy. Which faith is thine, the true or false?
~ William Gurnall
He would have none be without this sword any more than without the girdle, helmet, and the rest, &c., though this I know will not please the Papists, who would have this sword of the word, like that of Goliath, laid up out of their reach, and that in the priest's keeping also.
~ William Gurnall
Bless God for the translation of the Scriptures. The word is our sword. By being translated, this sword is drawn out of its scabbard.
~ William Gurnall
The professed object of war generally is to preserve liberty and produce a lasting peace: but war never did and never will preserve liberty and produce a lasting peace, for it is a divine decree that all nations who take the sword shall perish with the sword. War is no more adapted to preserve liberty and produce a lasting peace than midnight darkness is to produce noonday light.
~ David Dodge
Honor is Surplus Dignity: Honor, at its simplest, is that excess dignity that must be defended with the knife or sword. Wherever honor is at issue, it comes with a sense that dignity can be lost, and therefore must be constantly defended.
~ David Graeber
The victory is not gained by the men at arms, who manage the pike and the sword; but by the trumpeters
~ David Hume
No harm," he said as he danced on, cutting the air. Only now, the snowflakes began to bleed as he cut them. Battle of white and scarlet... "Oto-san, what can I do?" I wept in the dream, my tears freezing to my cheeks. "Dance," he said, his face still and calm, his blade whistling through the air. Blood flew from the tip of the sword, painting characters of death and disaster across the white ground. Dancing.
~ David Kudler
Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.
~ Alan Moore
Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising I came singing into the sun, sword unsheathing. To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking: Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Who knows, my friend? Maybe the sword does have some magic. Personally, I think it's the warrior who wields it.
~ Brian Jacques, Redwall
My understanding of magic is fairly straightforward. Hit enemies with a sword until they're dead. If they rise again, hit them again. Repeat as necessary. It worked against Set.
~ Rick Riordan
Silver is stronger than the sword, and people married to a family of each other draw sword on each other.
~ Jan Guillou
Maddy: "Um.....William?" she said, driving up the narrow dirt road. "Is there a particular reason you keep a sword behind your backseat?" William: "Because I don't own a gun yet
~ Janet Chapman
Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí, y caiga tu espada sin filo: desespera y muere.
~ Javier Marías
Meanwhile the old Marquess, visibly moved, was charging Odo to respect his elders and superiors, while in the same breath warning him not to take up with the Frenchified notions of the court, but to remember that for a lad of his condition the chief virtues were a tight seat in the saddle, a quick hand on the sword and a slow tongue in counsel. Mind your own business, he concluded, and see that others mind theirs. The Marchioness thereupon, with many tears, hung a
~ Edith Wharton
he forgot that the best of omens is to unsheathe our sword in the defence of our country.
~ Edward Gibbon
Baldwin, was awakened by the sound; but the most pressing danger could not prompt him to draw his sword in the defence of a city which he deserted, perhaps, with more pleasure than regret: he fled from the palace to the seashore, where he descried the welcome sails of the fleet returning from the vain and fruitless attempt on Daphnusia.
~ Edward Gibbon
más mata un exceso de fe que una buena espada, porque para esgrimir la espada hace falta valor y experiencia, mientras la fe ciega puede ser cosa de cobardes e ignorantes
~ Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa
La espada que todo lo corta no te corta cuando te conviertes en la espada.
~ Alejandro Jodorowsky
his sword and held it high above him. Suddenly, lightning struck the sword and Steve felt
~ Alex Anderson