Kenshin quotes from Rurouni Kenshin

Kenshin

[to Kaoru] Thank you for everything...and goodbye.

Kenshin

Oro! ["Huah!" in the English dub]

Kenshin

It was to create a world of peace, not to win positions or power, that we raised our swords and killed. If we forget that, then we are no revolutionaries after all.

Kenshin

A swordsman must be honest about his foes' skills and his own.

Kenshin

No matter how sincerely you try, there are times when your thoughts just don't reach the students.

Kenshin

Ah ... It's a doodle? [describing fine art]

Kenshin

Just being a hitokiri doesn't mean that one enjoys killing people.

Kenshin

Nikaido Heiho... Shin no Ippo... If a man kills too many, too long, he loses his original purpose and has his heart stolen by the color and smell of blood.

Kenshin

Doesn't Hiten Mitsurugi-Ryu teach us to PROTECT people from suffering? When DO we use our swords, if not now?

Kenshin

If you want death, come forward.

Kenshin

No matter what the reason, this one refuses to take another life.

Kenshin

What about Hiten Mitsurugi-Ryu...? What about "Himura Kenshin"...? Once again, I failed to protect the most important person.

Kenshin

That sweat, those wounds, and this warmth. These are not illusions. They are real. Now I want to protect what's real, not illusions.

Are you here to talk about swords that give life too?

Kenshin

A sword is a weapon. The art of swordsmanship is learning how to kill. That is the truth. What Miss Kaoru says is sweet and innocent talk that only those whose hands have never been stained with the blood of men can believe. But, to tell you the truth, I much prefer Miss Kaoru's sweet and innocent talk over the truth, indeed I do!

Kaoru

And you! You say you're 28?! That's a lie and you know it!

Kenshin

Would "30" make you happier?

Kaoru

No, it wouldn't...

Kenshin

[exasperated] This isn't going to be easy...