Marriage is a duet or duel.

“The time of testing, and of playing, was over. This was the final duel for one of them. Now they were fighting for their…

— Ellen Kushner

I wish we lived in the day where you could challenge a person to a duel.

— Zell Miller

I formed, in early life, two purposes to which I have inflexibly adhered, under some very strong pressure from warm personal friends. They were,…

— Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

Even a bad shot is dignified when he accepts a duel.

— Anonymous

“Today I have come for a duel. Let's see which is greater - your depth or the depth of my sorrows.”

— Akshay Shirsat

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…

— Tessa Dare

“What do you want, MacGuffin, a duel?” “No.” Julian held out both hands, one palm flat, the other held over it in a fist.…

— Abigail Roux

Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.

— Anonymous

“Some young man has wronged you, hasn't he?' From a person who renounced on principle the possibility of transcendental morality, she thought, it was…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale.

— Carl von Clausewitz

In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.

— H. L. Mencken

“it was a duel in which two participants got up at crack of dawn, one armed with a rapier, the other with a blunderbuss,…

— E. Gordon Rupp

To be the equal of one's opponent-this is the first condition of an honourable duel.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I just love things that serve a duel purpose.

— Tom Upton

“Haven´t you heard of the duel going on ever since 1801?" - The Duel”

— Joseph Conrad