Duels Quotes

18 quotes by 17 authors

Everything ends this way in France â€” everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs â€” everything is a pretext for a good dinner. — Jean Anouilh
The air is an extremely dangerous, jealous and exacting mistress. Once under the spell most lovers are faithful to the end, which is not always… — Winston Churchill
Lombardi, a certain magic still lingers in the very name. It speaks of duels in the snow and November mud He remains for many the… — Steve Sabol
Emotional instability can be one of the factors giving rise to a failure by chess players in important duels. Under the influence of surging emotions… — Mark Dvoretsky
A grandmaster must memorize thousands of chess duels in his head, as these are for him what words of the mother tongue are to the… — Garry Kasparov
The Battle for the Philippines was the greatest naval battle in history, judged in terms of the number of ships taking part, the number of… — Richard Hough
Queen Mary had a way of interrupting tattle about elopements, duels, and play debts, by asking the tattlers, very quietly yet significantly, whether they had… — Thomas B. Macaulay
I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to… — Mark Twain
But people only die in proper duels, you know, with real wizards. The most you and Malfoyâ€™ll be able to do is send sparks at… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
All of those faeries and duels and mad queens and so on, and no one quoted old Billy Shakespeare. Not even once. — Jim Butcher
Ralston didn't care. He turned on his brother as the surgeon knelt next to him and inspected the wound. "She could have been killed!" And… — Sarah MacLean
Night can swallow you up, yet none of it touches you. Around any corner, there's a promise of something daring and ideal and things are… — Bob Dylan
Love this job," Sanya murmured. "Just love it." "I need to challenge more people to duels," Thomas said in agreement. "Men are pigs," Murphy said.… — Jim Butcher
Nothing out of the ordinary ever occurs to me when I'm by myself. But you attract duels, ambushes, immortal enemies, obscure creatures such as the… — Christopher Paolini
How do you know it won't be duels at dawn when you tell him you've accepted my proposal of marriage?" "Don't be ridiculous. He's not… — Sabrina Jeffries
Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well… — Jules Verne
For a long period of history, you were what people said about you, and if your reputation was stained, you were in very serious trouble.… — James Lasdun
I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to… — Sprhjror

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