“Honor was in surviving, not fair play.”
Steve Perry (1947) American writer
Source: Matadora (1986), Chapter 1 (p. 4)
“How to play fair.”
Four Minute Essays Vol. 7 (1919), A School for Living
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“So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.”
Jack London book Call of the Wild
Source: The Call of the Wild
“People won’t share or play fair if you hit them.”
Robert Fulghum book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)
Context: A six-year-old will not understand that “By and large it has been demonstrated that violence is counterproductive to the constructive interaction of persons and societies.” True. But a child can better understand that the rule out in the world and in the school is the same: Don’t hit people. Bad things happen. The child must understand this rule is connected to the first rule: People won’t share or play fair if you hit them.
“I say you fellows, I expect to see fair play.”
Charles Hamilton (writer) (1876–1961) English writer of school stories
Bunter catchphrase
Oxford Companion to Children's Literature: "Billy Bunter" (pages 62-4)
“Oh, did you expect me to play fair?" Cupid laughed. "I am the god of love. I am never fair.”
Rick Riordan book The House of Hades
Source: The House of Hades
“Man is opposed to fair play: he wants it all, and he wants it his way.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), License to Kill
“I thought I detected in you a sense of fair play. Most dangerous in the Underland, boy.”
Suzanne Collins The Underland Chronicles
Ripred, p. 240
The Underland Chronicles, Gregor the Overlander (2003)
“There's no way to make the pain play fair
It doesn't disappear just because you say it isn't there”
Sara Bareilles (1979) American pop rock singer-songwriter and pianist
"Eden"
Written by Bareilles and Matt Hales
Lyrics, The Blessed Unrest (2013)
Johannes Grenzfurthner (1975) Austrian artist, writer, curator, and theatre and film director
at KAPU, Konferenz der Begrenzten, Linz 2016