Famous quotes containing the words sword and/or blade:
“When valour preys on reason,
It eats the sword it fights with.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“It required some rudeness to disturb with our boat the mirror-like surface of the water, in which every twig and blade of grass was so faithfully reflected; too faithfully indeed for art to imitate, for only Nature may exaggerate herself.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)