“Wouldn’t you rather play chess, Ma’am?…It’s less destructive of clothes.” — Rowena Cherry Copy Share Image
“Solid objects will not keep anyone safe in this conflict.” — Akutra-Ramses Atenosis Cea Copy Share Image
My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There was a time in my life when I almost thought I could never lose a single duel of chess. — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
“...we'll have a duel in the morning on the moors. Plenty of fog. It will be quite dramatic, I daresay.” — Julianne Donaldson Copy Share Image
My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“why are you ending our engagement then?" "Because of the reason you fought it" (The duel) "I don't understand." "I know” — Jayne Castle Copy Share Image
I don’t duel, boy. I kill as a soldier kills, which is as a butcher kills, as quickly, efficiently, and with as… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
True sport is always a duel, a duel with nature, with one's own fear, with one's own fatigue, a duel in which… — Yevgeny Yevtushenko Copy Share Image
Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons. — Joseph Cannon Copy Share Image
A duel, a duel, a duel. Is there anything more exciting, more romantic ... or more utterly moronic? — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to reconciliation of two enemies. Great skill is necessary to its satisfactory observance; if awkwardly performed… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
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… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“In a duel, man to man, sword against sword, it can be a lack of skill that gets you killed. Often as… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“A duel, whether regarded as a ceremony in the cult of honour, or even when reduced in its moral essence to a… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I formed, in early life, two purposes to which I have inflexibly adhered, under some very strong pressure from warm personal friends.… — Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II Copy Share Image
“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… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“…All right, two mornings from now I’ll fight a duel with a fellow known for his calm collectedness and remarkable skill…’Very remarkable,’… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
I think I learned discipline on 'Jane Eyre.' Charlotte Bronte's dialogue, the intellectual duel between Rochester and Jane Eyre's character, is so… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
“Who taught you to shoot?” he asked when she was standing beside him. “Our coachman.” “Better the coachman than your brother,” Ian… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
“If i understand correctly, he said, I'm to fight the duel because, if I refuse, I'll be hanged. If I fight I'm… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
“it was a duel in which two participants got up at crack of dawn, one armed with a rapier, the other with… — E. Gordon Rupp Copy Share Image
“Napoleon I., whose career had the quality of a duel against the whole of Europe, disliked duelling between the officers of his… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Well yes” agreed Pae, “but they didn’t have both keys. The duel blades Vitae and Mortem. It’s like legend says, ‘The Tree… — Benedict Fetsch Copy Share Image
“A red-gold glow burst suddenly across the enchanted sky above them as an edge of dazzling sun appeared over the sill of… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“The time of testing, and of playing, was over. This was the final duel for one of them. Now they were fighting… — Ellen Kushner Copy Share Image
“To the pain means this: if we duel and you win, death for me. If we duel and I win, life for… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
Saying 'I Love You' is like firing first in a duel; if you miss, you're f*cked! — Mark Corrigan Copy Share Image
In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
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