DUELING

Related Subjects: Chivalry, Fight, Honor, Quarrels, Sword

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

2. A duellist is only a Cain in high life.—DOUGLAS JERROLD, Douglas Jerrold's Wit
   

3. I never in my life Did hear a challenge urg'd more modestly,
   Unless a brother should a brother dare
   To gentle exercise and proof of arms.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
   

4. The passado he respects not, the duello he regards not.—SHAKESPEARE, Love's Labour's Lost
   

5. If I were young again, the sword should end it.—SHAKESPEARE, The Merry Wives of Windsor
   

6. There I throw my gage,
   To prove it on thee to the extremest point
   Of mortal breathing.—SHAKESPEARE, Richard II
   

7. An I thought he had been valiant, and so cunning in fence, I'd have seen him damned ere I'd have challenged him.—SHAKESPEARE, Twelfth Night
   

8. When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.—SHERIDAN, The Rivals
   

9. Duelling, though barbarous in civilized countries, is a highly civilizing institution among barbarous people; and when compared to assassination is a prodigious victory gained over human passions.—SYDNEY SMITH