All's Fair In Love And War Quotes & Sayings

All is fair in love, war and tax evasion. — Tom Sharpe

Heloise long ago reconciled herself to the idea that all is fair in love and war, which is just another way of saying that nothing in life is ever fair, because life is love and war. — Laura Lippman

What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world. — Robert E.Lee

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

So fair a victor, how can I help but be conquered. — Alice Borchardt

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

All's fair in love and war'. I could hear the vain grin on his lip as he recited the idiom. — Nely Cab

Fair is fair; all love is war. — Kyle Busch

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

Everything is fair and possible in love, war, and politics. — Chandana Roy

All is fair in love and war and Parliamentary procedure. — Michael Foot

But all was fair in love and war. If I had to fight dirty to keep him, then I'd be the dirtiest motherfucker there ever was. "So what's it going to be, Trent?" I pressed. "Are you going to protect my heart and the love it holds for you, or are you going to walk away? — Cambria Hebert

All's fair in love and war--and black ops. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

All's fair in love and war — Moulton Augustus Mayers

Lovers and warriors are not bound by the rules of fair play. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

The rules of fair play do not apply in love and war. — John Lyly

And it's not fair. But all's fair in love and war, right? — Shelly Crane

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

Why did you do this?" He was shaking. "Just tell me why."
I tried to muster up some of the righteous indignation that I'd felt on Friday night as I said, "You knocked over my gravestone!" But even to my ears the words sounded tinny and pathetic.
Dan's face was pale. "It was just a gravestone, Chelsea. And it was a mistake. I told you that already, and I meant it. I've never lied to you. My God, can't you tell the difference between a gravestone and a person you love? Can't you tel which one matters?"
But if I had to point to the real problem in my life, it's that I've never known the difference between a gravestone and a person I love. I have never known which is which until it's too late.
"All's fair in love and war," I reminded him, aiming for Tawny's tone. But my voice came out sounding just like me.
"Oh, yeah? And which is this?" he asked. "Love or war? — Leila Sales

All is fair in love and war — John Lyly

This was war.Who the hell cared about playing fair? — Nalini Singh

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

I know it is not fair to expect love from someone who hardly knows you at all. I know that we are too young to understand and too old to understand and that perhaps nobody understands at all. I know that things happen for reasons we cannot comprehend and yet sometimes I really wish we could comprehend. I wish the world was not so dark. Sometimes it felt like somebody had turned off the lights and we were all suffocating in the darkness. — Emma Abdullah

All is fair in love and war; and if this is not love, it was the usual thing that stands as a counterpart for it. — Anthony Trollope

I don't believe that being in love absolves you of anything. I no longer believe that all's fair in love and war. I'd go so far as to say your actions in love are not an exception to who you are. They are, in fact, the very definition of who you are. — Taylor Jenkins Reid

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

But don't they say that all is fair in love and war? I heard that somewhere."
"'They?' Who are 'they?'"
"I don't know. Just people."
"That's what the victorious claim, not the defeated; the powerful, not the powerless. 'All is fair.' 'The end justifies the means.' Is that what you believe? — John Connolly

You cannot kill or steal from a man while he is asleep and heartbroken. While it is said that everything is fair in love an war, the dictum is nullified when both love and war occur simultaneously ... — Salvador Plascencia

She was tired of being told how it was by this generation, who'd botched things so badly. They'd sold their children a pack of lies: God and country. Love your parents. All is fair. And then they'd sent those boys, her brother, off to fight a great monster of a war that maimed and killed and destroyed whatever was inside them. Still they lied, expecting her to mouth the words and play along. Well, she wouldn't. She knew now that the world was a long way from fair. She knew the monsters were real. — Libba Bray