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

What is our vision on this earth - war to the end of all generations and life by the sword?
Moshe Sharett

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.
Kahlil Gibran

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

While I write this letter, I have a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other.
Boyle Roche

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

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

With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield.
William Morris Hughes

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.
Lucy Liu

Working on the Samurai sword is very different because your body position has to be very still. It's a much quieter was of fighting.
Lucy Liu

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