Fencing is a game of subtlety, and bluff can be met with counter-bluff.
- Charles L. de Beaumont
All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.
- Franz Kafka
I find that fencing and training give me more stamina and help me deal with the craziness of being on the road so much.
- Bruce Dickinson
In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.
- Thorstein Veblen
The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat.Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.
- Anonymous
Using a sword is like sex. You can’t get good by practicing by yourself or with your relatives.
- Jack Sparrow
The essence of fencing is to give, but by no means to receive.
- Moliere
Hold your sword as if you were holding a bird in your hand: not too lightly to prevent his escape and not too tightly to prevent him choking.
- Justin Lafauger
The leading coaches of the world unanimously agree that epee has become the premier weapon to fence and to watch.
- Bob Anderson
The book deals with being an honorable person in a dishonest world. The Fencing Master does not sell himself. That’s his tragedy, and that is also his strength and his glory.
- Arturo Perez Reverte
I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.
- Vivien Leigh
Your actions are not small. Your actions must be very small.If they are not, you cannot fence.
- Anonymous
I’m a ham. I was immediately attracted to fencing because it seemed like a romantic, melodramatic form of combat.
- Bruce Dickinson
July 20th, 2010 at 8:15 pm
Sorry, but I see a huge mistake with this quote…allow me to correct it. The quote is:
“The leading coaches of the world unanimously agree that epee has become the premier weapon to fence and to watch.”
- Bob Anderson
Nor is is “The leading coaches of the world unanimously agree that FOIL has become the premier weapon to fence and to watch.”
No. The correct one is “The leading coaches of the world unanimously agree that SABRE has become the premier weapon to fence and to watch.”