Sword Quotes

I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword - two jackets, one that's driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.

Unlike Christianity, which preached a peace that it never achieved, Islam unashamedly came with a sword.

Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.

He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through, someone is lying wounded and thousands of others are either angry or consoled.

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

I wear my Pen as others do their Sword.

Shows can come and go. They can be a hit and then in three years, gone. There's some comfort in having the stability of a job and having children. It's a double-edged sword.

I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.

The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.

At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword.

In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but at a price. We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. Marx knew that the epic activities of the modern world involve not lance and sword but dry goods.

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

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.

There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.

Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.

A sword, a spade, and a thought should never be allowed to rust.

And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.

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

Women who wear kimonos, when the fight, they have to keep their knees together, and when they use a sword, they have to move the sleeves otherwise it gets caught.

The world may end up under a Sword of Damocles on a tightrope over the abyss.

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

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.

So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.

Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.

The pen is mightier than the sword.

King Arthur was one of my heroes - I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle's cane for the sword Excalibur.

Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.

The sword was a very elegant weapon in the days of the samurai. You had honor and chivalry much like the knights, and yet it was a gruesome and horrific weapon.

The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.