Quotes:
1) ( Momentous Quote ! )
You make one mistake. I was the one who taught Hanya kempo..and the speed and strength of a master and his pupil are vastly.
-Aoshi to Kenshin
2) ( Pet Quote ! )
To fight with swords is to take life! A fight is to decide which is stronger! There is no decision but who lives and who dies! I trained on the edge between life and death and threw everything away to challenge you! Stop chopping logic and prepare to kill me here!
-Aoshi to Kenshin
3) ( Momentous Quote ! )
I understand your imitation trick, but three hundred years of Oniwaban martial arts isn't so weak it can be beaten with a trick. An imitation is still just a copy. New techniques are worked out by combining a number of arts.
-Aoshi to Suzaku
4) ( Pet Quote ! )
There's only one thing an Oniwabanshuu spy doesn't know--nothing!
-Hanya
5)
Himura is teetering on the edge between the vagabond who does not kill and Hitokiri Battousai.
6) ( Momentous Quote ! )
Love is different for everyone, Yahiko. Among a hundred different people there would be a hundred different forms of love.
-Okina to Yahiko
7) ( Momentous Quote ! )
A sword is a weapon. Kenjutsu is the art of killing. Whatever pretty words you use to speak of it, this is its true nature. What Miss Kaoru says are the words of one who has never dirtied her hands. An idealistic joke....I like Miss Kaoru's idealism better than its true nature. If one can ask so much, I want the world to accept this joke as its true nature.
-Kenshin
8)
We didn't fight for the power and glory of the government. It was to protect and build a world where people can pursue happiness. If we forget that, we are mere upstarts.
-Kenshin to Yamagata
9) ( Pet Quote ! )
It doesn't matter. Use whatever technique you like. However. Once I've said I'll kill you, your death is assured.
-Kenshin to Jin'eh
10) ( Pet Quote ! )
In this world of memories, there's no need for strangers.
-Kenshin to Kaoru
11)
I never thought about why I surpassed others. I thought I was a sinner, hiding the true nature of the Hitokiri deep in my heart. What is it that I lack...
-Kenshin
12)
Even if you are kind of dense, if you think you'll find some way to win!
-Kenshin to Sano
13)
I have no intention of leaving my name in yours or any history. The only thing I want to leave behind me is the peace that came of this violence!
-Kenshin to Shishio
14) ( Momentous Quote ! )
The true answer comes not by fighting but by living your life, as you atone for your sins.
15)
The pain of wounds can be overcome with determination and preparation. For those who leave themselves to the fight, it is second nature.
-Kenshin to Shishio
16) ( Momentous Quote ! )
No matter how much I kill, the succession of a new era isn't getting anywhere. As a whole, I'm just being a killer over and over again... The smell of blood never left my consciousness when I felt depressed...It was during that time when I met you...and now after I've lived with you for the past half year, I know clearly what happiness was to the people I protect. For the first time I begin to understand each persons happiness and struggles... Hiten Mitsurugi Ryu is quite an impressive skill but regardless of how skilled I become, I cannot accomplish the goal of a new era alone. And, I can never grant everyone's happiness...What I can do is protect people's happiness one by one....
-Battousai to Tomoe (Jinchuu Arc)
17) ( Momentous Quote ! )
They (the Kenshin-gumi) all walk their own paths, live their own lives. A journey without farewells, a beginning without end. It's a little lonely, but that's how it is.
-Kenshin to Kaoru
18) ( Momentous Quote ! )
I can't die! There's no reason for me to die here! There's still someone waiting for me to come back! Nothing...nothing is stronger than the will to live!
-Kenshin to Shishio
19)
You are playing with toys. Whatever mechanisms you make, as long as you don't know pain or the taste of blood, all you're doing is playing.
-Kenshin to Gein
20) ( Momentous Quote ! )
Surpassing your limits is what leads to excellence. Sano and I learned that in our last fight. Your limits aren't something you decide yourself.
-Kenshin
21) ( Momentous Quote ! )
Enishi, I thought about a lot of things in the living hell you made for me. About life, about death . . . About sin and retribution. And I finally arrived here, at the one truth I can't throw away. I want to protect the people I see here . . . I want to help those in pain, or who are suffering . . . And there was one smile I wanted to see. But to do that, I had to defeat my enemies . . . I had to take lives . . . not realizing that those I killed were fighting for the same reason. It was my fault, so I'll accept my punishment. But I'll live on, bearing my sins and the sins of those I've killed.
-Kenshin to Enishi
22)
From now on Enishi will also atone, consulting not with death, but with life. If he doesn't, Tomoe won't smile... If he himself doesn't smile, the Tomoe within him will never smile...but, the true Tomoe is kinder than anyone or anything so... she will surely watch over Enishi... She'll watch over him throughout anything...
-Kenshin about Enishi to Kaoru
23)
I'm not so different. It's just that when I take off my ribbons and put on my fighting gear, I'm neither a man nor a woman. I prepare myself for battle as an ordinary swordsman. Maybe you're the same.
-Kaoru to Kamatari
24) ( Momentous Quote ! )
The Choushuu patriot Himura Battousai. Practitioner of the old style of kenjutsu Hiten Mitsurugi, who wielded his sword as the Hitokiri. He worked for five years, from the age of 14 to 19. For the first half, he literally was a killer, a cold-hearted assassin who killed in darkness. For the second half, he defended the revolutionaries from the Shogun's swordsmen units like the Shinsengumi, acting as a bodyguard. Originally he was meant to remain obscure, but today he's gained great fame for his work. Then, the decisive war of Boshin. After the first battle of Tobafushimi, he disappeared. To live as the vagabond Himura Kenshin. The real fight begins when you know your enemy and decide how to fight him. I had to go to Kyoto, the center of the Bakumatsu bloodshed, to find out about you.
-Sano to Kenshin
25) ( Pet Quote ! )
You preached equality, but you drowned in greed and acted like you owned the whole damn world! Don't tell me about the Ishin Shishi, who gave us the lie of a new age!
-Sano to Kenshin
26) ( Pet Quote ! )
Well, you can't separate selfishness from love..
-Sano about Kaoru's love for Kenshin
27) ( Pet Quote ! )
Idiot. Which road do you take when you're running from something weaker than yourself? Or maybe you're the one looking for an excuse to back out.
-Sano to Raijuuta
28) ( Pet Quote ! )
"Perfect" or "ultimate" are not the kind of words you can throw around lightly. Carry your stupid self-confidence too far and you're gonna get burned!
-Sano to Banshin
29) ( Pet Quote ! )
You only fight people you think you can beat. That's why you make excuses to fight with your shoes on and take your fill of vulgar pleasures. I can't sit here and listen to a big frog in a little pond croak anymore!
-Sano to Banshin
30) ( Pet Quote ! )
A man always comes out fists first. If you have to hide that, then turning your back and running is worse than showing yourself to the enemy.
-Sano to Outa (Sano's brother)
31) ( Pet Quote ! )
Painful life...or a peaceful death?
-Megumi
32) ( Pet Quote ! )
What, are you surprised? We come and go below Heaven. Can't our paths simply cross? Actually, I have today and tomorrow off. I thought I'd come over and play.
-Megumi to Kenshin and Kaoru
33)
He's strong as a cockroach, so he'll be fine, but if he doesn't wake up soon, I'm just going to stick him in a coffin and bury him anyway.
-Megumi to a sleeping/hurt Sano
34) ( Momentous Quote ! )
I became a doctor so I could save lives and atone for my sins. Alright? This is my life's path. And there is no one who could have shown me how to live that path but Ken-san. So even if he's not here, I'll keep on atoning as a doctor. This atonement is how I feel towards him. So I don't need some cowering girl to tell me he's not important to me. Oh, so now you're going to cry? You really are weak.
-Megumi to Kaoru
35) ( Pet Quote ! )
Really... I wish I had something to cure stupidity.
-Megumi to Sano
36) ( Pet Quote ! )
Shishio: Call me Shishio, my rude predecessor.
Kenshin: Don't let it bother you. The rudeness is on both sides.
-Shishio and Kenshin first meet
37) ( Pet Quote ! )
I'm kidding, I'm kidding. Learn how to take a joke. You're as serious as the rumors say you are.
-Shishio to Kenshin
38) ( Pet Quote ! )
If you trust, you will be betrayed. If you are careless, you will die. Kill, or be killed. And, A good man is never far from a woman.
-Shishio to Kenshin and Saitou
39)
Shishio: I was almost assassinated; when my wounds had finally healed and I tried coming out, the Meiji government had succeeded in ending the violence. Now they who tried to eliminate me won't send a single troop against me for fear of looking weak before the Western powers. This weak government. I cannot leave this country to such a weak government. If the violence was ended, I'll awaken it! I'll seize control! I'll make this country strong. Justice will be served when the country is mine.
Kenshin: But for this justice, blood will flow. The blood of those who now live in peace...
( Pet Quote ! )
Shishio: Well, after all, in this world the flesh of the weak is the food of the strong. But I never could persuade you of that.
40)
Man's true nature is violence, and this world is Hell.
-Shishio to Houji
41) ( Pet Quote ! )
No. It doesn't matter where you're born. It's because you're weak. In this world, the flesh of the weak is the food of the strong. The strong live, the weak die. No matter how hard you smile, you can't run from the truth.
-Shishio to Soujirou
42) ( Pet Quote ! )
You fool. Who do you think you are? I'm just here to laugh at you. But I might take you with me all the same. You just have to realize that you were a failure. Your sword, your beliefs, your life, everything... admit it was all one big mistake you can never take back.
-Shishio to Kenshin
43) ( Pet Quote ! )
Good men and evil man are made of the same flesh. In the end, they both rot and return to earth.
-Houji to Shishio
44) ( Pet Quote ! )
The young have an unfortunate tendency to believe the impossible possible and confuse dreams with reality. I explained it for you with great kindness and respect... Very well. You will die.
-Roujin to Kaoru, Misao and Yahiko
45) ( Pet Quote ! )
My methods may coincide with Mr. Gein's, but our objectives couldn't be more different. I don't need any of them. Just as long as I have my sister. Just me and her...
-Enishi to Mumyouni
46) ( Pet Quote ! )
I am in a position to bring down judgment upon you for the sins you committed as a Hitokiri! I'm the one in control. Before you rail against the heavens, you should look to the opponent before your eyes. When there's no one left there to stand against you, then I'll come down.
-Enishi to Kenshin
47) ( Pet Quote ! )
I've hated you ever since that snowy day . . . Even after my hair turned white, even after I fled to Shanghai, I still hated you. Spring, summer, autumn, winter . . . Rain or shine, day or night. It was as if my brain fed on my hatred for you.
-Enishi to Kenshin
48) ( Pet Quote ! )
Well, you know. My genius shows in whatever I do.
-Hiko to Kenshin
49) ( Pet Quote ! )
You coward! You've taken more lives than you can count--are you so afraid to take your own?
-Enishi to Kenshin
50) ( Pet Quote ! )
I'm sure I taught you this. A sword is a weapon. Kenjutsu is the art of killing. Whatever pretty words you use, this is its true nature. Your own foolish ideals, or today's harsh realities--whatever you're trying to protect, it's complete selfishness.
-Hiko to Kenshin
51) ( Momentous Quote ! )
Violence begets violence in a vicious circle. You played a role indirectly in raising the ghost with the Hiten Mitsurugi school. You were right; the original purpose of school was to protect others from the sufferings of the ages. But as a free sword, not under anyone's control! If such strength is not free, this is the kind of disaster that will be born!
-Hiko to Kenshin
52)
If you master this final technique, you'll probably gain strength equal to mine. No, wait, you couldn't be that good. At your very best you might be able to just touch my level. But don't get too sure of yourself.
-Hiko to Kenshin
53)
The Amakakeru Ryuu no Hirameki I taught him can't fail. When you avoid the fangs of the dragon that soars the heavens, a fierce wind steals the freedom of your body and it pierces you with its claws. That is, if you do it exactly right. (I didn't bother to tell him that much!)
-Hiko to Kaoru
54)
In spring, cherry blossoms by night. In summer, the stars. In autumn, the full moon. In winter, the snow. These are always enough to make sake delicious. If it tastes bad, that's proof that there's something sick inside you.
-Hiko to Kenshin
55) ( Momentous Quote ! ) + ( Pet Quote ! )
Killing is my specialty, so this work is all I could desire as a sideline.
-Saitou to Shibumi
56) ( Pet Quote ! )
It's unfortunate, but I have no interest in being the best of the "frogs in the well," who know nothing of the great ocean.
-Saitou
57) ( Momentous Quote ! ) + ( Pet Quote ! )
Ten years... it's only two words. But to live it is a long time.
-Saitou to Kenshin
58) ( Momentous Quote ! ) + ( Pet Quote ! )
A man who can't uphold his beliefs is pathetic dead or alive.
-Saitou to Usui
59)
The first principle of the Shinsengumi is that it is unworthy to deviate from the warrior's path. A warrior does not know how to flee before the enemy!!
-Saitou to Kenshin
60) ( Pet Quote ! )
A human being uses his intellect to know when it's time to quit. Animals rely on their instincts. But you blame your failures on the victors, never realizing that your time was up. You're worse than an animal, freak!
-Saitou to Mumyouni
61) ( Pet Quote ! )
You were always a good talker. You think you can sweet-talk the general in the sky like that?
-Saitou to Kenshin
62)
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