Showing posts with label Sword. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sword. Show all posts

Advice, Edward Bulwer-Lytton


Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873), Richelieu (1839)

Act ii, Scene ii. This is the origin of the much quoted phrase "the pen is mightier than the sword". Compare: "Hinc quam sic calamus sævior ense, patet. The pen worse than the sword", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 4, Subsect. 4.

펜은 칼보다 강하다

- 에드워드 리튼 (Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1803~1873) 영국의 소설가이자 정치가

War, Greek Proverb

The sword knows no friends.

- Greek Proverb

칼은 친구를 모른다.

- 그리스 속담

Sword, Terry Pratchett

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

- Terry Pratchett, in his Discworld novel The Light Fantastic (1986)

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War, Napoleon Bonaparte


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

세계엔 칼과 정신이라는 2개의 힘 밖에 없다. 그리고 반드시 칼은 정신에게 패배한다.

- 나폴레옹 보나파트



Sword, William Blake

A tear is an intellectual thing,
And a sigh is the Sword of an Angel King.

- William Blake, "The Agony of Faith"

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