Sword Quotes

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.
Buddha

Nothing, Doubt, Hurts

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Powerful, Weapon, Heals

Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.
John F. Kennedy

Success, Hope, Home

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
C. S. Lewis

Marriage, Between, Hidden

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
Confucius

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
Khalil Gibran

Love, Hard, May

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

Women, Great, Power

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Long, Two, Spirit

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

Hand, Anybody, Tool

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
Alexander Hamilton

Men, Once, Moderation

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
Alexander Hamilton

Religion, Politics, Fire

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
Zora Neale Hurston

Sorrow, Hands, Mountain

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

Beauty, Power, Smile

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.
Gordon Ramsay

Family, Hate, Two

If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.
Andrew Jackson

Battle, Once, Union

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
Samuel Johnson

Silence, Word, Hesitate

Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler

Shall, Logic, Appeal

The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
Terry Pratchett

Short, Pen, Sharp

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

Great, Men, Rule

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Play, Devil, Toys

Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.
Homer

Country, Brave, Cause

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

Done, Same, Gave

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

Justice, Makes, Fate

No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.
Andrew Jackson

Blood, Shall, Red

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry, Lightning, Consumes

The pen is mightier than the sword.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

One sword keeps another in the sheath.
George Herbert

The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword.
Ang Lee

Men, Woman, Meaning

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

Hero, Light, Face

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

Time, Opinion, Found

Share with your Friends

Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.

Related Definition

Sword Definition

Aristotle

Popular Topics

Friendship Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Get Social with BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote of the Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

Syndication

Funny Quote Feed

Love Quote Feed

Nature Quote Feed

About Us