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Quotes About Duelist

a skilled soldier kills your enemies, but a skilled duelist kills your allies. I
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Of course, I have known for a long time that we have inherited a mad fear of being slighted or scorned, an exacerbated honor. It is not quite the duelist's madness of a hundred years ago, but we are a people of tantrums nevertheless. A word exchanged in a movie or some other crowd, and we are ready to fly at one another.
~ Saul Bellow
For all the air of comfort and grace she projected, however, Lesa noticed the white leather of her holster slung over her waist and buckled down to her thigh. Elena had a past as a duelist, too, and as a politician. And she wasn't about to let Claude Singapore forget it, even if Claude's position as prime minister was enough rank to let her enter another woman's household without surrendering her honor.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Katya was fifteen Amazonian years-twenty-odd, in standard conversion-and impatient with anything that smacked of responsible adulthood. And she wouldn't wear her honor around the house; her hip was naked even of a holster. Of course, Lesa-both hands full of groceries, unable to reach her honor without dropping chickens or fruit-wasn't much of an example, whatever her renown as duelist twenty years and three children ago.
~ Elizabeth Bear
one captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duelist at his foe, blindly seeking with a six-inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the whale. That captain was Ahab.
~ Herman Melville
Katsuya J?nouchi [to Dinosaur Ryuzaki]: You really think I can't beat him [Esper Roba]? Then I will!! Step one to becoming a true duelist — don't pass up an opponent, no matter what! Step two: Fight opponents that seem stronger than you!
~ Kazuki Takahashi
Yūgi [paraphrasing Atem's perspective]: I can't bet my precious cards on a wager! A real rare card isn't about how scarce it is or how much money it costs...It's different for each person...it's the 40 cards they chose out of thousands and thousands to build their deck! All those cards are precious to the duelist who chose them! All of them are one-of-a-kind.
~ Kazuki Takahashi
Katsuya J?nouchi: If I take that card [the Red-Eyes Black Dragon]...I feel like I'll just get farther from being the true duelist I'm trying to become. That Red-Eyes Black Dragon means more to me than any card in the world. It's been my fighting partner for ages! But I've leaned on it for too long! If I accept that card, I won't grow as a fighter! Not just that...The way I am right now...the card won't want me to have it!
~ Kazuki Takahashi
Seto Kaiba [to Koji Nagumo]: You poor duelist...When you insult my little brother...you insult Kaiba Corporation. I assume you're prepared for the consequences...
~ Kazuki Takahashi
Seto Kaiba: A duelist's greatest enemy is nothing less than the monster called fear in our hearts...!
~ Kazuki Takahashi
Bishop Peregrino smiled grimly, the way a duelist might salute a worthy opponent.
~ Orson Scott Card