Sword and shield can refer to:
- Fencing with sword and shield
- Viking Age arms and armour
- Royal Armouries Ms. I.33
- Society for Creative Anachronism
- The Shield and the Sword, a song by British singer-songwriter Clare Maguire
- The emblem of the KGB (Soviet intelligence agency), and also its successor, Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation
Famous quotes containing the words sword and/or shield:
“With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)
“Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.”
—Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)