Pugilist Quotes & Sayings

pugilist who won every match was dull, she — Ashley Gardner

Ed Miliband is obviously a mild guy. I don't expect him to pretend to be a pugilist. — Robert Webb

Like the pugilist," Gershwin said, "the songwriter must always keep in training. — Mason Currey

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight. — Josh Billings

The third gentleman now stepped forth. A mighty man at cutting and drying, he was; a government officer; in his way (and in most other people's too), a professed pugilist; always in training, always with a system to force down the general throat like a bolus, always to be heard of at the bar of his little Public-office, ready to fight all England. To continue in fistic phraseology, he had a genius for coming up to the scratch, wherever and whatever it was, and proving himself an ugly customer. He would go in and damage any subject whatever with his right, follow up with his left, stop, exchange, counter, bore his opponent (he always fought All England) to the ropes, and fall upon him neatly. He was certain to knock the wind out of common sense, and render that unlucky adversary deaf to the call of time. And he had it in charge from high authority to bring about the great public-office Millennium, when Commissioners should reign upon earth. 'Very — Charles Dickens

Christopher Hitchens was a great warrior, a magnificent orator, a pugilist and a gentleman. He was kind, but he took no prisoners when arguing with idiots. — Richard Dawkins