Truce Quotes

• When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.

  

  Sun Tzu
  • Enemy
  • Compliments
  • Truce

• Valentine's Day is like Armistice Day - you declare a truce.

  

  Milton Berle
  • Declare
  • Valentine's Day
  • Truce

• Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must grapple with them individually and make war on them without truce; for it is one of humanity's inevitabilities to be condemned to eternal struggle with phantoms.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Phantoms
  • Truce

• Even if the issues discussed transcend the confines of the text of the original truce, they cannot be construed as amendments.

  

  Anton Balasingham
  • Issues
  • Amendments
  • Truce

• Shall we upon the footing of our land Send fair-play orders, and make compromise, Insinuation, parley, and base truce, To arms invasive?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • War
  • Arms
  • Compromise

• It would serve no meaningful purpose if we enter into a recriminatory debate, making accusations and counter-accusations against each other over the abuses of the truce.

  

  Anton Balasingham
  • Purpose
  • Accusations
  • Truce