Fencing Quotes and Sayings

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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