Duel Quotes
50 quotes by 46 authors
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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
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We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time.
— Jack Kerouac
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A duel is just two murders who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.
— Orson Scott Card
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I've never lost a duel to the death. Not one.
— Jim Butcher
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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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Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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You weren't able to talk sense into him?" Well, we kind of tried to kill each other in a duel to the death." I see.…
— Rick Riordan
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... I tried to end our little duel. I called out pacifying words; I entreated; I finally surrendered. Still Clyde came, my pirate costume so…
— John Kennedy Toole
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My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.
— Oscar Wilde
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Even a bad shot is dignified when he accepts a duel.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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…
— Victor Hugo
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I won the only duel I ever lost.
— Patrick Rothfuss
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... You are the closest I will ever come to heaven, either here on Earth or in the afterlife, and I will not regret it,…
— Elizabeth Hoyt
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Always it is thus with my new students, and especially with the human ones; the mind is the last muscle they train or use, and…
— Christopher Paolini
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If you do not apologize to Lady Honoria,†Marcus said, his voice so mild as to be terrifying, “I will kill you.†There was a…
— Julia Quinn
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A duel, a duel, a duel. Is there anything more exciting, more romantic ... or more utterly moronic?
— Julia Quinn
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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…
— Jeaniene Frost
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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…
— Anais Nin
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I challenge you to a duel!†screamed the cat, sailing over their heads on the swinging chandelier.
— Mikhail Bulgakov
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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…
— Tessa Dare
Who Wrote These Duel Quotes
46 authors contributed a total of 50 Duel Quotes, led by these top contributors: