Truce Quotes
48 quotes by 42 authors
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RECONCILIATION, n. A suspension of hostilities. An armed truce for the purpose of digging up the dead.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I'm as pro-life as a person gets. You're not going to have a truce.
— Paul Ryan
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Manhood begins when we have in any way made truce with Necessity; begins even when we have surrendered to Necessity, as the most part only…
— Thomas Carlyle
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I don't think there will ever be a permanent truce, but I believe the media needs to be more careful and be willing to count…
— Bob Woodward
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Valentine's Day is like Armistice Day - you declare a truce.
— Milton Berle
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It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died…
— Stephen King
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A truce to philosophy!—Life is before me, and I rush into possession. Hope, glory, love, and blameless ambition are my guides, and my soul knows…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Why would you try to kill this guy, Kevin? He's a genius. Nuts to your truce.
— John Green
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Some truce," Daniel said, "Eighteen days of others trying to kill her.
— Lauren Kate
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Look, ladies, we've been over this. I don't even remember killing Medusa. I don't remember anything! Can't we just call a truce and talk about…
— Rick Riordan
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Surely until all of us own and honor one another's dead, until we have admitted to our murders and forgiven one another and ourselves for…
— Alexandra Fuller
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Hey Pudge," the Colonel said. "What do you think of a truce?" "It reminds me of when the Germans demanded that the U.S. surrender at…
— John Green
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Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must…
— Victor Hugo
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Coffee?" Santangelo calls down to us. We both look up. He,Ben, and Raffy are hanging over the side. "Is it espresso?" Anson Choi asks behind…
— Melina Marchetta
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I've found it wise to enjoy any time of truce, while recognizing it for what it is. A truce.
— Cinda Williams Chima
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Call a truce, then, to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for…
— Rudyard Kipling
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The truce brokered by Egypt between Israel and Hamas depends, above all, on the borders between Egypt, Gaza and Israel.
— Elliott Abrams
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In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards…
— William Hull
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We do not mind establishing a long-term truce between us and you.
— Osama bin Laden
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The whole celebrity thing never is normal and I think the fuller your life is, the more you are able to just kind of call…
— Michelle Pfeiffer
Who Wrote These Truce Quotes
42 authors contributed a total of 48 Truce Quotes, led by these top contributors: