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I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun. -- Victoria Abril
Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle. -- Edmond About
If I moved, he moved. If I stopped, he stopped. It was a duel. -- Jennifer Esposito
In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft. -- H. L. Mencken
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated. -- Charles Baudelaire
Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons. -- Joseph Cannon
I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel. -- Magic Johnson
I have a perfectionist mentality; I want things to be right. But I've had a little duel over the years with that mentality. Because it can inhibit you. -- Jon Voight
I think I learned discipline on 'Jane Eyre.' Charlotte Bronte's dialogue, the intellectual duel between Rochester and Jane Eyre's character, is so compelling that you didn't have to do much with the placement of cameras. -- Cary Fukunaga
I formed, in early life, two purposes to which I have inflexibly adhered, under some very strong pressure from warm personal friends. They were, first, never to be a second in a duel; and, second, never to go security for another man's debts. -- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II
Marriage is a duet or duel. -- Emile Augier
I won the only duel I ever lost. -- Patrick Rothfuss
I just love things that serve a duel purpose. -- Tom Upton
War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale. -- Carl von Clausewitz
I've never lost a duel to the death. Not one. -- Jim Butcher
Even a bad shot is dignified when he accepts a duel. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle. -- Edmond About
Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
To be the equal of one's opponent-this is the first condition of an honourable duel. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The duel may go on for long, but the self-defense often wins over the self-reproach. -- Pawan Mishra
A duel is just two murders who agree to take turns trying to kill each other. -- Orson Scott Card
I wish we lived in the day where you could challenge a person to a duel. -- Zell Miller
The whole existence of man is a ceaseless duel between the forces of life and death. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A duel, a duel, a duel. Is there anything more exciting, more romantic ... or more utterly moronic? -- Julia Quinn
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being vanquished. -- Charles Baudelaire
I challenge you to a duel!" screamed the cat, sailing over their heads on the swinging chandelier. -- Mikhail Bulgakov
My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go. -- Oscar Wilde
We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time. -- Jack Kerouac
There was a time in my life when I almost thought I could never lose a single duel of chess. -- Jose Raul Capablanca
...Raleigh was later to write, after a duel the hangman was the one who bestowed the garland on the victor. -- Raleigh Trevelyan
The eternal duel between Ormuzd and Ahriman, God and Satan, is raging in my breast, which is one among their billion battlefields. -- Mahatma Gandhi
To be the first to enter the cosmos, to engage, single-handed, in an unprecedented duel with nature-could one dream of anything more? -- Yuri Gagarin
There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching, murder, the duel, repudiation, & massacre. -- Mark Twain
The duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world, and the struggle between individualism and collectivism is the same struggle reproduced on another level. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
True sport is always a duel, a duel with nature, with one's own fear, with one's own fatigue, a duel in which the body and the mind are strengthened. -- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
To know the brain...is equivalent to ascertaining the material course of thought and will, to discovering the intimate history of life in its perpetual duel with external forces. -- Santiago Ramon y Cajal
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. -- Rick Riordan
I donâ??t duel, boy. I kill as a soldier kills, which is as a butcher kills, as quickly, efficiently, and with as least risk to myself as I can arrange. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
In matching your wits against yourself you take on the shrewdest and wiliest antagonist you can have, and consequently a victorious outcome in this duel of wits brings a great feeling of triumph. -- Dorothea Brande
Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades. -- Boris Pasternak
DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to reconciliation of two enemies. Great skill is necessary to its satisfactory observance; if awkwardly performed . . . deplorable consequences sometimes ensue. A long time ago a man lost his life. -- Ambrose Bierce

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