A Quote by Francis Edward Smedley

All's fair in love and war.

Francis Edward Smedley

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Fair Love Love And War War

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Francis Edward Smedley
English - Novelist
October 4, 1818 - May 1, 1864

Fair is fair; all love is war.

Kyle Busch

All is fair in love and war and Parliamentary procedure.

Michael Foot

All's fair in love, war and ride-sharing.

Marc Andreessen

All is fair in love, war and tax evasion.

Tom Sharpe

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

Victor Borge

For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of Lochinvar.

Walter Scott

All's fair in love and war," said Ron brightly, "and this is a bit of both.

J. K. Rowling

The phrase 'All is fair in love and war' must have been penned by a divorce attorney.

Paul Nassif

All's fair in love and war and sport - even when you're fighting against your sister.

Cate Campbell

War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead.

Tim O'Brien

It is an old adage, "All is fair in love as in war," but I thought not of general laws, and only felt a private grievance.

Jane Swisshelm

And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty, using these steps only, and from one going on to two, and from two to all fair forms to fair practices, and from fair practices to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is.

Plato

All is fair in war, and starvation is one of the weapons of war. I don't see why we should feed our enemies fat in order for them to fight harder.

Obafemi Awolowo

I know all's fair in love and war but when you go off and try to be by yourself and it ends up on the front page of the press it's frightening, knowing your life is under such scrutiny.

Michael Hutchence

Then marry me. For I love you, and I do not believe there is anything so wrong with you. You are fair in my eyes and you lie fair on my heart.

Robin McKinley

Is it fair for the bears to come down to where humans live, looking for food? Is it fair for the Duke's soldiers to shoot at them? Is it fair for the bears to crush them with giant snowballs? Often, if you point out something that isn't fair, someone will reply, "Life isn't fair." What is to be done with such people?

Daniel Handler

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