The joke is mightier than the sword.

- Bassem Youssef

I loved playing Go Go, because the character's so extreme. And she's pretty close to my real character. Especially the fact that she liked her sword with a lot of accessories.

- Chiaki Kuriyama

The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched.

- Caleb Cushing

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

- Confucius

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

- Charles de Gaulle

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

- C. S. Lewis

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.

- Billy Hughes

The longest sword, the strongest lungs, the most voices, are false measures of truth.

- Benjamin Whichcote

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

- Boyle Roche

I read H.P. Lovecraft. I also like Sword and Sorcery stuff, Arthurian legend.

- Bruce Boxleitner

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

- Aeschylus

Sword fighting is just as fun as it looks on the screen.

- Ben Barnes

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

- Andrei A. Gromyko

I did a production of Macbeth in the 1960s in which I had a swordfight in the final scene. But the blade fell off my sword just as I was stabbing the guy. I ended up having to hammer him to death.

- Alan Dale

The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin.

- Alexander Cockburn

'Ancillary Sword' picked up the Locus and the BSFA, which surprised the heck out of me.

- Ann Leckie

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

- Alan Moore

Technology is always a two-edged sword. It will bring in many benefits, but also many disasters.

- Alan Moore

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

- Andrew Jackson

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

- Alexander Hamilton