Julia Quinn Quotes

My friend told me I went over to this guy and he pulled a knife.

Bring back dueling, I say. Drive-by sword fight.

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

While I write this letter, I have a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other.

You back a big cat into a corner and somebody is going to get bloody.

Violence is for mugs. War is for mugs.

Give me a sword fight any day.

I wish we lived in the days when you could challenge a person to a duel!

That damn fool will get himself killed by some other damn fool.

I would love to fight in Mexico City.

Every fight is dangerous, no matter who you're fighting, no matter what the story behind it is.

Everybody wants to see two warriors have a good fight.

If two guys want to go see each other, let them be in the middle, let them throw some punches, then break it up.

You would do well to know, Marcus, that irritating a better swordsman than yourself is a good way to end up dead.

Who's they?" He wanted to know. "Who, specifically, do you think is trying to murder you?" "Every one of them," Yossarian told him. "Every one of whom?" "Every one of whom do you think?" "I haven't any idea." "Then how do you know they aren't?" "Because..." Clevinger sputtered, and turned speechless with frustration. Clevinger really thought he was right, but Yossarian had proof, because strangers he didn't know shot at him with cannons every time he flew up into the air to drop bombs on them, and it wasn't funny at all.

I Play Dodgeball with Cannibals (Chapter 2)

Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he’s nothing to lose.

Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.

You weren't able to talk sense into him?" Well, we kind of tried to kill each other in a duel to the death." I see. You tried the diplomatic approach.

I never saw him fight. I never saw Billy fight.

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!

A duel is just two murders who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.

I'll fight, till from my bones my flesh be hacked.

This is a people shooting hat," I said. "I shoot people in this hat.

Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity.