“A duel, a duel, a duel. Is there anything more exciting, more romantic… or more utterly moronic?”
Source: The Duke and I
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“Amongst the amusements of Paris must be counted duels between journalists.”
Source: Benjamin Cummings Truman, The Field of Honor (1884), pg 23
Source: Violence and the Labor Movement (1914), p. 94
“The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being defeated.”
L'étude du beau est un duel où l'artiste crie de frayeur avant d'être vaincu.
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Le Spleen de Paris (1862)
Source: Twenty Prose Poems
“My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.”
“We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time.”
“I challenge you to a duel!” screamed the cat, sailing over their heads on the swinging chandelier.”
Source: The Master and Margarita
“I wish we lived in the day where you could challenge a person to a duel.”
To Chris Matthews on Hardball after his speech at the 2004 RNC, September 1, 2004.
“A duel is just two murderers who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.”
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Seventh Son (1987), Chapter 11.