Love and War Quotes

Only a fool wants war, but once a war starts then it cannot be fought half-heartedly. It cannot even be fought with regret, but must be waged with a savage joy in defeating the enemy, and it is that savage joy that inspires our bards to write their greatest songs about love and war.

As for sex, well, I mean sex is a perfectly respectable subject as far as Shakespeare is concerned. I mean, all history is love and violence.

These times of woe afford no time to woo.

All is fair in love and war and Parliamentary procedure.

Love and war always go together. They are the peaks of human emotion! Evil and good, beauty and ugliness

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?

If Queen Amezan and Queen Penthesilea could somehow meet in real life, they would recognize each other as sister Amazons. Two tales, two storytellers, two sites far apart in time and place, and yet one common tradition of women who made love and war.

Love is the only thing worth fighting for.

The desire for magic cannot be eradicated. Even the most supposedly rational people attempt to practice magic in love and war. We simultaneously possess the most primitive of brain stems and the most sophisticated of cortices. The imperatives of each coexist uneasily.

Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.

Well, all's fair in love, war and fooling the critics.