Duelling Quotes

As a Senator I am opposed to duelling. As Ben. Wade, I recognize the code. (Benjamin F. Wade)
It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would be duelling pianos by grandmothers. View quote
Diane Cilento
NOTES: Jean Cololère, a drummer in the colonial troops at Québec, was imprisoned for duelling in 1751. In the cell next to his was Françoise Laurent, who had been sentenced to hang for stealing. Except for letters of pardon, the only way at the time for someone under sentence of death to escape hanging was, for a man, to become a hangman, or, for a woman, to marry one. Françoise persuaded Cololère to apply for the vacant (and undesirable) post of executioner, and also to marry her. -Condensed from the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume III, 1741-1770. View quote
Margaret Atwood
See if you can hold off this pack of blood-sucking scavengers. Here's my duelling sword.” The King handed me his own sword! "You have full permission to use it on anyone who looks remotely like a physician. View quote
Iain Banks
See if you can hold off this pack of blood-sucking scavengers. Here's my duelling sword. View quote
Iain Banks