Top 77 The Duel Quotes
#1. In the duel of sex, woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.
H.L. Mencken
#2. The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is destruction. Out of the duel comes the transformation. I turn destruction into creation over and over again.
Anais Nin
#3. There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching, murder, the duel, repudiation, & massacre.
Mark Twain
#4. Later, years later even, sometimes I might say, "How about the duel on the cliff with Inigo and the man in black?" and my father would gruff and grumble and get the book and lick his thumb, turning pages till the mighty battle began.
William Goldman
#5. A duel, whether regarded as a ceremony in the cult of honour, or even when reduced in its moral essence to a form of manly sport, demands a perfect singleness of intention, a homicidal austerity of mood. [The duel]
Joseph Conrad
#6. I believe that the duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world. I further believe that the struggle between individualism and collectivism is the same struggle reproduced on another level.
William F. Buckley Jr.
#7. Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades.
Boris Pasternak
#8. This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.
Victor Hugo
#9. He would find the six-fingered man. He would go up to him. He would say simply, "Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die," and then, oh then, the duel.
William Goldman
#10. why are you ending our engagement then?"
"Because of the reason you fought it" (The duel)
"I don't understand."
"I know
Jayne Castle
#11. The duel may go on for long, but the self-defense often wins over the self-reproach.
Pawan Mishra
#12. I challenge you to a duel! screamed the cat, sailing over their heads on the swinging chandelier.
Mikhail Bulgakov
#13. Emotionlessly she kissed me in the vineyard and walked off down the row. We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked up at each other for the last time.
Jack Kerouac
#14. When I read the script, I said to one of the producers, "I know you probably want Jonathan Harker really fluffy, but I'm not gonna do that. It needs to be a mask. There needs to be a duel between Harker and Dracula."
Oliver Jackson-Cohen
#15. We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time.
Jack Kerouac
#16. Right words, sometimes they escape me; curses nay so much. Of them I am kin.
Luke Taylor
#17. Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.
G.K. Chesterton
#18. To be the equal of one's opponent-this is the first condition of an honourable duel.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#19. A duel would mean a fair fight, and I hate fair fights. In the words of a murderous Faerie Queen, they're too easy to lose. Of
Jim Butcher
#20. The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
Charles Baudelaire
#21. Then the anger washed over her again, a tide crashing against the rocks and nothing mattered but revenge, and winning this contest, this duel of breaking each other," ~Fallenwood 2: Forgetting Fallenwood
Leslie D. Soule
#22. To know the brain ... is equivalent to ascertaining the material course of thought and will, to discovering the intimate history of life in its perpetual duel with external forces.
Santiago Ramon Y Cajal
#23. Little things about the Pilgrims surprised me. For instance, the fact that the first duel in America was fought at Plymouth by two teenaged boys over a girl. The life the Pilgrims led in Holland before coming to America also surprised me.
Ann Rinaldi
#24. Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.
Edmond About
#25. They're safe,' he said. "And you're not made of glass". He swept me up in his arms.
I laughed. "And I'm not made of glass."
He carried me into our room and kicked the door shut behind us.
Sherwood Smith
#26. Until the Civil War there was scarcely a man in public life in New Orleans or Louisiana who had not fought at least one duel; most of them had engaged in several.
Herbert Asbury
#27. I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel.
Magic Johnson
#28. the strategic situation foreseen by Robert Heinlein in the death dust story was like "a duel in a vestibule with flamethrowers," anticipating mutual assured destruction and its acronym quite nicely. Tolstoy famously
Gregory Benford
#29. Raleigh was later to write, after a duel the hangman was the one who bestowed the garland on the victor.
Raleigh Trevelyan
#30. I'm not going to accept your challenge. There will be no duel."
"Why not? Because I'm a woman?"
"No, because I've seen the way you spinsters handle a pistol. You'd shoot me dead where I stood.
Tessa Dare
#31. Must one suffer eternally, or eternally flee from beauty? Nature, pitiless enchantress, always victorious rival, let me be! Tempt no longer my desires and my pride! The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist screams with fear before being vanquished.
Baudelaire-C
#32. I've never lost a duel to the death. Not one.
Jim Butcher
#33. It is an ajtys - a singing-duel. The boy and girl stand in the eye of the village carrying on a mocking well-I-sort-of-like-you-even-if-there's-one-or-two-weird-things-about-you-for-instance - kind of game while the tune darts in and out of qobyz and dombra strummed and plucked.
Thomas Pynchon
#34. So let me end with the wish that you find the same kind of happyiness, and laughter, and love, that I have found, and that you have the wisdon to make them last.
Sherwood Smith
#35. Because Anno Domini, in the Year of Our Lord, is fine for Christians, but Thor gets a little upset. He still holds a grudge that Jesus never showed up for that duel he challenged him to." "Say what now?
Rick Riordan
#36. I have a perfectionist mentality; I want things to be right. But I've had a little duel over the years with that mentality. Because it can inhibit you.
Jon Voight
#37. To be the first to enter the cosmos, to engage, single-handed, in an unprecedented duel with nature-could one dream of anything more?
Yuri Gagarin
#38. Equality before the enemy -that is the main condition to fight a fair duel. Where you have contempt, you cannot wage war; where you are in command, where you can see someone beneath you, you should not wage war.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#39. I want you to tell me how this normally works. Do we hunt down the Dark Ones? Do we have a scheduled battle with the Big Bad Dark One? Do I need to run up and hit him in the face with a glove and declare a duel? What?
Nichole Chase
#40. Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.
Joseph Cannon
#41. Death was in the darkness, and it swallowed what it willed, what it wanted, and it wanted infinity, from east to west like an ever-digesting stomach of razor-wind teeth.
Luke Taylor
#42. I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
Victoria Abril
#43. The whole existence of man is a ceaseless duel between the forces of life and death.
Mahatma Gandhi
#44. Chater: You dare to call me that. I demand satisfaction!
Septimus: Mrs Chater demanded satisfaction and now you are demanding satisfaction. I cannot spend my time day and night satisfying the demands of the Chater family.
Tom Stoppard
#45. Noontime was absolutely the perfect time for a duel in the dragon's opinion as this was also lunchtime, his favorite part of the day. As the saying went, he could kill two birds with one stone.
Sully Tarnish
#46. Speak straightly." I said. "You've come to steal something, haven't you?
Luke Taylor
#47. But only men think a duel over a woman is actually about the woman.
Kit Rocha
#48. I wish we lived in the day where you could challenge a person to a duel.
Zell Miller
#49. Whatever lived in Marbh Raon could not grow; yet such could not die, as all was held in an ethereal state of turbulent animation, too bound with dread to move, thus remaining forever still.
Luke Taylor
#50. In matching your wits against yourself you take on the shrewdest and wiliest antagonist you can have, and consequently a victorious outcome in this duel of wits brings a great feeling of triumph.
Dorothea Brande
#51. Lucien," Gavriel said, "if you're proposing a duel, I believe she gets to pick the weapon. I hope she picks me.
Holly Black
#52. It slowly dawned on the thief that a duel was but moments away.
Steven Erikson
#53. I do not believe I ever would have the courage to fight a duel. If any man should wrong me to the extent of my being willing to kill him, I would not be willing to give him the choice of weapons with which it should be done, and of the time, place and distance separating us, when I executed him.
Ulysses S. Grant
#54. A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
Anne Taylor Fleming
#55. My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.
Oscar Wilde
#56. Because you showed one face to all the rest of the world, and another to me.
Sherwood Smith
#57. This isn't the first time I've faced death, and I don't intend for it to be the last," I said, repeating the same words he'd told me before fighting in that fateful duel. "I've chosen to live a dangerous life, but it's who I am, and that wouldn't change even if we'd never met.
Jeaniene Frost
#58. He led her to the dressing room, opened the wardrobe, and riffled through her clothes. He pulled out a black tunic, leggings, and jacket and thrust them at Kestrel.
Coolly she said, "This is a ceremonial fighting uniform. Do you expect me to fight a duel on the docks?
Marie Rutkoski
#59. And whilst so much escaped her mind, such could nay escape her heart, so eager to receive the witnesses of such chance-built things, like seed in soil.
Luke Taylor
#61. The eternal duel between Ormuzd and Ahriman, God and Satan, is raging in my breast, which is one among their billion battlefields.
Mahatma Gandhi
#62. It is false to believe that the scale of fears corresponds to that of the dangers which inspire them. One might be frightened of sleeplessness and yet not of a duel, of a rat and not of a lion.
Marcel Proust
#63. Little boys are still playing the game [baseball], more little girls are playing, and it is still the world's most interesting game, a duel, a chess match, a foot race, a gymnastics exhibition, that rare opportunity for individuals to be recognized within a group effort.
Robert Lipsyte
#64. We'd settled it with an old fashioned duel. (i.e, I sat on her until she begged for mercy).
R.S. Grey
#65. I think I learned discipline on 'Jane Eyre.' Charlotte Bronte's dialogue, the intellectual duel between Rochester and Jane Eyre's character, is so compelling that you didn't have to do much with the placement of cameras.
Cary Fukunaga
#67. Arthur had never challenged a man to a duel, but in this moment he understood the magnificent reasonableness of the tradition. It was either that or slugging him outright this very second, which didn't seem nearly so gentlemanly.
Graham Moore
#68. You're going to show up to a duel, in the street, wearing Come F - k Me Heels?" - Bats 2015
Fred Barnett
#69. The only possible excuse for this book is that it is an answer to a challenge. Even a bad shot is dignified when he accepts a duel.
G.K. Chesterton
#70. We'll have a duel in the morning on the moors. Plenty of fog. It will be quite dramatic, I daresay.
Julianne Donaldson
#71. True sport is always a duel, a duel with nature, with one's own fear, with one's own fatigue, a duel in which the body and the mind are strengthened.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
#73. When two evil guys fight in a duel,
the worst of both will be the winner.
Toba Beta
#75. We shall not enter into any of the abstruse definitions of war used by publicists. We shall keep to the element of the thing itself, to a duel. War is nothing but a duel on an extensive scale.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#76. You both ... you both saved me?"
"Come on," said Luis. "You make it sound like it was hard for Val to go to the Unseelie Court, strike a deal with Roiben, challenge Mabry to a duel, win back your heart, and then get back here during rush hour.
Holly Black
#77. Well we kind of tried to kill each other in a duel to the death."
"I see. You tried the diplomatic approach.
Rick Riordan
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