Fair Play Quotes

“Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Cerulean Sins

“It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent—lose your invaluable curiosity and you let yourself die. It's as simple as that.”
― Tove Jansson, Fair Play

“In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“I’m a liar and a cheat and a coward, but I will never, ever, let a friend down. Unless of course not letting them down requires honesty, fair play, or bravery.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Fools

“There were two types of strong men: those like Uncle Monty and Abe Steinheim, remorseless about their making money, and those like my father, ruthlessly obedient to their idea of fair play.”
― Philip Roth, The Plot Against America

“Lovers and warriors are not bound by the rules of fair play.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman, Veterans of the Psychic Wars

“Every game has rules. Obey the rules, win the game; disobey the rule, lose it! The game of life has loser and winners. Play fairly and win!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“[Football] has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.”
― George Orwell, The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell 1903-1950

“...I realized that my father, of all these men, was the most obstinate, helplessly bonded to his better instincts and their excessive demands. I only then understood that he had quit his job not merely because he was fearful of what awaited us down the line should we agree like the others to be relocated, but because, for better or worse, when he was bullied by superior forces that he deemed corrupt it was his nature not to yield--in this instance, to resist either running away to Canada, as my mother urged our doing, or bowing to a government directive that was patently unjust. There were two types of strong men: those like Uncle Monty And Abe Steinheim, remorseless about their making money, and those like my father, ruthlessly obedient to their idea of fair play.”
― Philip Roth, The Plot Against America

“If they will play fair I will play fair, but if they won't then I reserve all my rights to do anything I find myself able to do.”
― William Howard Taft

“Life is a game where fair players are winners! But as for the "injury causers", "red-card" sees their end off!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Everyone born is on the field of life’s game, but not everyone does wear the jersey of vision! Some people are fair players and others are injury causers; you joke with the later and they hit you down in pain and blood stains!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Scouts hadden een Franse lelie op de riem en werden overigens geregeerd door Engelsen (vanwege hun stichter Baden-Powell) die hun Engelse ceremonies opdrongen, thee drinken, onze stambroeders in Zuid-Afrika in concentratiekampen achter prikkeldraad laten verhongeren, onze geloofsbroeders in Ierland mitrailleren, fair play mijn kloten.”
― Hugo Claus, Het verdriet van België

“Fairness is a term that is interpreted different ways. For the government, fair is whatever suits their needs.”
― Kenneth Eade, The Spy Files

“When fair-play and the interests of the team conflict with each other, which one should you choose?”
― Mustafa Donmez, Red-White Love: The Love of Liverpool FC

“The spring evenings had grown long, and it was hard to darken the room. They sat in their separate chairs and waited for Fassbinder, their silence a respectful preparation. They had waited this way for their meetings with Truffaut, Bergman, Visconti, Renoir, Wilder, and all the other honored guests that Jonna had chosen and enthroned–the finest present she could give her friend.”
― Tove Jansson, Fair Play

“Honor bright! Fair play is a jewel!”
― E.D.E.N. Southworth, Capitola's Peril

“A muscle moved in Tucker's jaw. He said, "You mean you want berating space. I breath better when you are close by.”
― Josh Lanyon

“How you harangue referees. How you fall over when you've not been touched. How you make a meal out of every tackle to try and get the other player booked. How you protest when you have nothing to fucking protest about –”
― David Peace, The Damned Utd

“Inside every rough note will exist a sincere effort of fair play”
― J. Lepika

“In this group of issues related to fair play, we consider whether we are putting data subjects in a position that undermines their autonomy or authority about how their personal information is used.”
― Aileen Nielsen, Practical Fairness: Achieving Fair and Secure Data Models

“As long as you have enough money, the rules of fair play don't matter.”
― Islam Reddioui

“From where we sat, this man appeared to be enjoying a luxury all of the women we know couldn't imagine: the freedom to focus on one task at a time.”
― Eve Rodsky, Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do

“A reminder, in itself, takes tremendous mental effort by you. It requires knowing what needs to be done, remembering what needs to be done, and reminding someone to get it done, whereas the person being reminded gets off easy. He doesn't have to remember a thing, nor does he worry about forgetting. And if you think about it, reminding and praising is the daily work of parenting children, not partnering with husbands.”
― Eve Rodsky, Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do

“He took the offering and positioned it behind his head with a baleful look. 'If I recall, it is your fault I have lost a great deal of blood,'

Undeniable, but then again, I had not started the encounter. 'If I recall, you attempted to rob us.'

His mouth twitched upward. 'Touché.'

'And your companion tried to shoot my coachman.'

He nodded soberly. 'Yes, not well done. My apologies, I told him there was to be no shooting, on any account.' The edges of his mouth quirked up again. 'I must point out, however, that you commandeered my senseless body to play your brother.'

'True.' I sat back. He was very quick. 'Perhaps we could call it even.'

The quirk broadened into a smile. 'I like your idea of fair play, Lady Augusta.”
― Alison Goodman, The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies

“You don't talk of playing fair to a bully. It's like playing qin music to a cow.”
― Alice Poon, The Earthly Blaze