Duel Quotes

50 Duel quotes by 46 unique authors

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated. — Charles Baudelaire
War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale. — Carl von Clausewitz
To be the equal of one's opponent-this is the first condition of an honourable duel. — Friedrich Nietzsche
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… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
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… — Victoria Abril
Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle. — Edmond Francois Valentin About
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… — Yevgeny Yevtushenko
We had set out in a rain of flowers to seek the death of heroes. The war was our dream of greatness, power and glory.… — Ernst Junger
I wish we lived in the day where you could challenge a person to a duel. — Zell Miller
A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain the palm of knowledge, while… — Ron Chernow
DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to reconciliation of two enemies. Great skill is necessary to its satisfactory observance; if awkwardly performed . . .… — Ambrose Bierce
I told Terry I was leaving. She had been thinking about it all night and was resigned to it. Emotionlessly she kissed me in the… — Jack Kerouac
The unwritten rules of behaviour are infinite in number, finely shaded, and subtle to the last fraction of a degree. They are not to be… — Hal Porter
The duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world, and the struggle between individualism and collectivism is the same struggle reproduced… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
I just love things that serve a duel purpose. — Tom Upton
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… — Robert Lipsyte
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,… — Mark Twain
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… — Dorothea Brande
In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft. — H. L. Mencken
Human relationships didn't work anyhow. Only the first two weeks had any zing, then the participants lost their interest. Masks dropped away and real people… — Charles Bukowski
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… — Boris Pasternak
We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time. — Jack Kerouac
A duel is just two murders who agree to take turns trying to kill each other. — Orson Scott Card
I've never lost a duel to the death. Not one. — Jim Butcher
You both ... you both saved me?" "Come on," said Luis. "You make it sound like it was hard for Val to go to the… — Holly Black

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46 authors contributed a total of 50 Duel Quotes, led by these top contributors: