The Duellists Quotes

#1. 'The Duellists' won Cannes, but Paramount didn't know how to release a film about two guys in bizarre breeches, waving swords around. I actually think it's a pretty good Western.

Ridley Scott

#2. It has been a good while since 12:00 a.m. held much attraction for me beyond being a perfectly lovely time to be ensconced in the comfort of my own home, sitting in my underpants, contentedly worrying about something.

David Rakoff

#3. Art is the indispensable medium for the communication of a moral ideal ...

Ayn Rand

#4. I find men's clothing fascinating because sometime between, say, 1930 and 1936 a handful of basic shapes were created and still prevail as a sort of scale of expression, with which every man can project his own personality and his own dignity.

Yves Saint-Laurent

#5. I am unable to rule anything out,

Toni Kroos

#6. You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity
no better, no worse. Individuality is a monster and it must be strangled in its cradle to make our friends feel comfortable.

Stanley Kubrick

#7. Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.

Mark Twain

#8. The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.

Woodrow Wilson

#9. we have that the animal does not: reason and free will, or free choice.

Peter Kreeft

#10. You know because you've been it, and I know because I'm dead and it gives one such a wonderfully uncluttered perspective.

Douglas Adams

#11. History is distinguished
from nature precisely by the fact that it transforms science and passion by means of will.

Albert Camus