Dueling Quotes

• I like the dueling club scene, where Daniel and I fight with our wands. I thought it was a brilliant scene to shoot. I think the end product looked really good.

  Tom Felton

  Fighting, Thinking, Clubs

  Scholastic interview, www.scholastic.com.

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• I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome.

  James Dickey

  Want, Welcome, Banjos

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• 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 a quiet place and kill him.

  Mark Twain

  Forgiveness, Death, Suicide

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• We should restore the practice of dueling. It might improve manners around here.

  Edward Abbey

  Practice, Might, Manners

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.15, RosettaBooks

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• With respect to duels, indeed, I have my own ideas. Few things in this so surprising world strike me with more surprise. Two little visual spectra of men, hovering with insecure enough cohesion in the midst of the unfathomable, and to dissolve therein, at any rate, very soon, make pause at the distance of twelve paces asunder; whirl around, and simultaneously by the cunningest mechanism, explode one another into dissolution; and, offhand, become air, and non-extant--the little spitfires!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Distance, Insecure, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (2015). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh”, p.161, The Floating Press

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• The dueling maturity levels in high school is such a source of comedy to me. I was always such a late developer. I was last to walk. I was last to ride a bike. I was last to have sex. That's why it's fun to portray one side of your childhood onscreen.

  Paul Feig

  Sex, Fun, School

  "Paul Feig walks us through Freaks And Geeks (Part 2 of 5)". Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. April 10, 2012.

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• If all seconds were as averse to duels as their principals, very little blood would be shed in that way.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Blood, Would Be, Littles

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.44

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• My knowledge of pain, learned with the sabre, taught me not to be afraid. And just as in dueling when you must concentrate on your enemy's cheek, so, too, in war. You cannot waste time on feinting and sidestepping. You must decide on your target and go in.

  Otto Skorzeny

  Pain, War, Enemy

  "Skorzeny" by Charles Whiting, (p. 17), 1972.

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• That I was not dueling with the king, but trying to communicate with him, was itself an incommunicable fact.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Kings, Trying, Facts

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• Since bodily strength is but a servant to the mind, it were very barbarous and preposterous that force should be made judge over reason.

  Philip Sidney

  Judging, Mind, Reason

  Philip Sidney, Katherine Duncan-Jones (1999). “The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (The Old Arcadia)”, p.344, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.

  Edmond Francois Valentin About

  Marriage, Life Is Like, Battle

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• I wondered if that's what aging felt like. That desire and reality were dueling until the day you die, that nobody every got to a place of peace. I had always wanted to get old so I didn't have to care anymore, but I began to think that it would be best just to skip the getting older part and just die.

  Portia de Rossi

  Reality, Thinking, Getting Older

  Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before he is defeated.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Artist, History, Study

  "Poison and vision: poems and prose of Baudelaire, Mallarmé and Rimbaud".

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• The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed. Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you. When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.

  Alan Alda

  Real, Thinking, Differences

  "Alan Alda ... on Celebrity and Its Discontents". "The Open Mind" with Richard Heffner, www.thirteen.org. January 22, 2007.

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• Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse; and with the means at hand, not hand-wrought dueling pistols, curare and tropical fish.

  Raymond Chandler

  Mean, Hands, People

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Simple Art of Murder”, p.19, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Horizontal hostility may be expressed in sibling rivalry or in competitive dueling which wrecks not only office tranquility or suburban domesticity but also some radical political groups and, it must be sadly said, some women's liberation groups. ... [it is] misdirected anger that rightly should be focused on the external causes of oppression.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Sibling, Office, Political

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