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

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

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

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

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

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
John Ray

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.
Charles Simmons

Bring back dueling, I say. Drive-by sword fight.
Tim Roth

Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen.
Henry Vaughan

Damn the sword! When Virginia wanted a sword, I gave her one. Now she sends me a toy! I require bread!
George Rogers Clark

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

Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.
Alan Moore

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

Give me a sword fight any day.
Joseph Fiennes

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.
Pete Hamill

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.
Mary Harris Jones

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

I don't do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn't have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable.
Orlando Bloom

I gave 'em 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.
Richard M. Nixon